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

[Evan Hepler-Smith]

Hi Bernard,

I second Matthew's reference to Manuel Lima, *The Book of Trees
<https://www.papress.com/html/product.details.dna?isbn=9781616892180>*, an
art-historical treatment of just this question, including a taxonomy of
kinds of trees. And Theodora's reference to her own work!

I have an article discussing the development of trees and graphs as
mathematical objects and calculation devices in comparison/connection with
the graphical practices of organic chemists circa the late 19th century and
1960s:


   - Evan Hepler-Smith, “Paper Chemistry: François Dagognet and the
   Chemical Graph,” *Ambix* 65, no. 1 (2018): 76–98,
   https://doi.org/10.1080/00026980.2017.1418232.


(Preprint linked on my website <http://evanheplersmith.com/publications>; I
can send a PDF of the published version to anyone interested.)

Alexander et al., *A Pattern Language* also seems relevant to this
question, though not specifically about trees. (Although Alexander's
earlier essay "A City is Not a Tree" might be.)

Evan

On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 2:21 PM BRIAN JUSTIE <b1 at ucla.edu> wrote:

> Bernard,
> Johanna Drucker’s *Graphesis*
> <https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674724938> has a brief
> section (pp. 95-105) on the history of tree diagrams in humanistic inquiry,
> which includes a handful of potentially useful citations.
> Hope this helps,
> Brian
>
> —
> Brian Justie
> *b1 at ucla.edu <b1 at ucla.edu> *
>
> PhD Student, Department of Information Studies
> Researcher, UCLA Labor Center
>
>
>
>
> On Mar 26, 2020, at 2:03 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)
>
> 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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