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3 unusual facts about Seven Bridges of Königsberg


Carl Gottlieb Ehler

In the letter, Euler talks of the problem of the Seven Bridges of Königsberg, a problem that Ehler brought to Euler’s attention.

Seven Bridges of Königsberg

The city of Königsberg in Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia) was set on both sides of the Pregel River, and included two large islands which were connected to each other and the mainland by seven bridges.

Canterbury University in Christchurch, New Zealand, has incorporated a model of the bridges into a grass area between the old Physical Sciences Library and the Erskine Building, housing the Departments of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science.



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