But several hundred years before that, “The Seven Bridges of Königsberg” was giving mathematicians headaches. The only relief came when German wunderkind Leonhard Euler solved the problem in ...

The problem stymied local thinkers ... Despite his initial demurral, Euler did end up solving the puzzle of the seven bridges of Königsberg, unaware that in the process he had birthed two ...

As a result, all seven bridges can’t be crossed without crossing one of them more than once. Representation (above) of the Königsberg bridge problem as a graph of points and lines (vertices and ...

One of our favourite maths problems is called the bridges of Königsberg. It involves finding a path on an 18th century map of the city of Königsberg that crosses each of its seven bridges once and ...

The story begins with Euler taking on a popular problem of the day – the “seven bridges of Königsberg” problem. The challenge was to see whether it was possible to visit all four areas of ...

This can be accomplished through a local adaptation of the famous problem, the Seven Bridges of Königsberg. We start by journeying back to 1736 to find one of the most prolific mathematicians of ...

This article was originally published with the title “ Leonhard Euler and the Koenigsberg Bridges ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 189 No. 1 (July 1953), p. 66 doi:10.1038 ...

Sound familiar? This is exactly the kind of path that would solve the Bridges of Königsberg problem and is called an Eulerian cycle. As it visits all edges of the de Bruijn graph, which represent ...

The four sections became dots, and the seven bridges became lines. By transforming Königsberg into simple ... to apply that theory to really complex problems. Before then, large data sets were ...