Seven Bridges of Königsberg
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title:
Seven Bridges of Königsberg
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The Seven Bridges of Königsberg is a historically notable problem in mathematics. Its negative resolution by Leonhard Euler in 1736 laid the foundations of graph theory and prefigured the idea of topology. The city of Königsberg in Prussia was set on both sides of the Pregel River, and included two large islands—Kneiphof and Lomse—which were connected to each other, and to the two mainland portions of the city, by seven bridges. The problem was to devise a walk through the city that would cross
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Classic problem in graph theory
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Bridges_of_K%C3%B6nigsberg
date created:
2003-03-07T01:02:13Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T10:34:50Z
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