<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Manuel Lima's <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Book-Trees-Visualizing-Branches-Knowledge/dp/1616892188"><i>The Book of Trees: Visualizing Branches of Knowledge</i></a> is another good starting point; Anthony Grafton's <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Cartographies-Time-Timeline-Anthony-Grafton/dp/B00ANYTMUM">Cartographies of Time</a></i>, exploring linearity in temporal thinking, is probably germane, too (apologies for the Amazon links). </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Deleuze & Guattari make much of the comparison between rhizomatic & arborescent form, too, if you're amenable to that perspective.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 5:03 PM Jeff Scott Nagy <<a href="mailto:jsnagy@stanford.edu">jsnagy@stanford.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Dear Bernie,</div>
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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<span> </span><i>The Art of Computer Programming</i>, the section beginning with "Trees have of course been in
existence since the third day of creation..."<span> </span><span style="margin:0px">On p. 459, he gives a little more on the history of trees as CS data structures in particular. </span></div>
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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. </div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, March 26, 2020 4:05 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [SIGCIS-Members] Tree diagrams in computer science and other fields (i.e. genealogy)</font>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt">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?</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt">Thanks for your thoughts, </span>
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