[SIGCIS-Members] Tree diagrams in computer science and other fields (i.e. genealogy)

[Matthew Battles]

Manuel Lima's *The Book of Trees: Visualizing Branches of Knowledge*
<https://www.amazon.com/Book-Trees-Visualizing-Branches-Knowledge/dp/1616892188>
is another good starting point; Anthony Grafton's *Cartographies of Time
<https://www.amazon.com/Cartographies-Time-Timeline-Anthony-Grafton/dp/B00ANYTMUM>*,
exploring linearity in temporal thinking, is probably germane, too
(apologies for the Amazon links).

Deleuze & Guattari make much of the comparison between rhizomatic &
arborescent form, too, if you're amenable to that perspective.

On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 5:03 PM Jeff Scott Nagy <jsnagy at stanford.edu> wrote:

> Dear Bernie,
>
> If by trees in CS you mean at least in part the abstract data type, Knuth
> gives a short history and bibliography on pp. 406-7 of the first volume of
>  *The Art of Computer Programming*, the section beginning with "Trees
> have of course been in existence since the third day of creation..." On
> p. 459, he gives a little more on the history of trees as CS data
> structures in particular.
>
> Happy to send photos of these pages if they'd be of use! I think the files
> are too big to not get bounced by the list though.
>
> Sincerely,
> Jeff
>
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> *Subject:* [SIGCIS-Members] Tree diagrams in computer science and other
> fields (i.e. genealogy)
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>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
>
>
> A little query sent across the lockdowns and quarantines: Can anyone
> recommend scholarship on the tree-style diagrams that circulate both in
> computer science and a wide range of other fields, for example, genealogy,
> kinship? Is there any good work on the history of these diagrams, their
> intersection, and what they might say about possible links in styles of
> reasoning across fields that might, otherwise, seem remote?
>
>
>
> Thanks for your thoughts,
>
> b
>
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>
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>
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