About Us

Since 1992, A K Peters, Ltd. has specialized in publishing computer science and mathematics products. Founded by Alice and Klaus Peters, the Company's program ranges from textbooks through advanced professional publications and includes a range of specialist trade titles as well as scholarly monographs. Across these formats, the program is focused on editiorial quality and reader-friendly design.

A K Peters has nearly 300 titles in print and publishes approximately 35-40 new titles annually. In addition, we distribute the proceedings of the annual Graphics Interface conference, sponsored by the Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society. We are the co-publisher of the Canadian Mathematical Society's new CMS Treatises in Mathematics Series. Our titles have been featured in the Scientific American Book Club and are consistently reviewed or excerpted in both technical and popular interest journals, such as Game Developer Magazine, The Mathematical Intelligencer, Nature, Science, and New Scientist.

In 2010, A K Peters became a part of CRC Press and the Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This extended our reach globally and increased the line of quality publications now available to A K Peters' customers.

Founders

Alice Peters and Klaus Peters have nearly eighty years of combined experience as distinguished publishers. Over the course of their careers they developed prestigious lists as editors of programs at major academic publishers, including Springer-Verlag, Birkhauser Boston, Academic Press and Jones and Bartlett.

Klaus Peters received a Ph.D from the University of Erlangen in 1962. In 1964 he took a leave of absence from his position as Assistant Professor and joined Springer Verlag as mathematics editor. He built the mathematics publishing program at Springer Verlag (from 5 titles per year to over 100 per year). In 1974, he was appointed Scientific Director of Springer Verlag. In 1979, he resigned from Springer and, together with Alice Peters, started Birkhauser Boston. After the sale of Birkhauser to Springer in 1984, he and Alice Peters opened new offices for Academic Press/Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in Cambridge, MA and supervised the publishing program in the mathematical sciences, including computer science and theoretical physics. In 1992 they founded A K Peters, Ltd. He is a member of the American Mathematical Society, the German Mathematical Society and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Alice Peters received a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Chicago in 1979. She also received an MBA from Babson College. She joined Springer-Verlag NY in 1972 as mathematics editor and later moved to Heidelberg where she started the computer science publishing program at Springer-Verlag. In 1979, she resigned from Springer and together with Klaus Peters, started Birkhauser Boston. She was President of Revi-Data, Inc, a software development company, providing complete solutions for the publishing industry. After the sale of Birkhauser to Springer in 1984, she opened new offices for Academic Press/Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in Cambridge, MA, together with Klaus Peters, where she developed the computer science and applied mathematics publishing programs. In 1992, together with Klaus Peters, she founded A K Peters, Ltd. She is a member of the American Mathematical Society and the Association for Computing.