Saturday, 21 April 2018

Prussia still exists, in Birmingham!?

It's 1736 in the Prussian city of Königsberg, now the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, and Leonhard Euler, probably the greatest mathematician of the 2nd Millennium, is on a jog or something and decides to try to cross every one of the seven bridges over the river Pregel once and only once to prove his worth as a nerd. He failed. And subsequently he went home and drew up a snazzy mathematical proof as an excuse.