Cayley not only introduced the term "tree" (in the CS sense) to the english language in 1857, he did so as a computer scientist:
- his motivation was abstract parses of concrete syntax
- his investigation distinguishes between commutative and associative operations, and
- his trees have their roots at the top, and their branches opening downwards!
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