Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Back Pages of the Brain: Seven Bridges of Königsberg

Don't ask me why... but I randomly remember things for way back in the dusty filing cabinet known as my brain. The other day I recalled a project I did in 6th grade. Every one in the class was assigned a mathematician and told to write a report.... I don't even remember who I was assigned to do.... but what I do remember was an unsolvable math problem know as the "Seven Bridges of Königsberg". So I decided today to quickly research and remember it. Actually all I remembered was it had something to do about bridges.... and then when I look up "great mathematicians" I saw Euler's name and that was all I really needed.... so rather than write out the entire problem... here is the link to Wikipedia....

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Seven_Bridges_of_K%C3%B6nigsberg

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