The Seven Bridges of Koenigsberg is a notable historical problem in mathematics and laid the foundations of graph theory. The city of Koenigsberg 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. A weekend diversion for inhabitants was to find a walk through the city that would cross each bridge once and only once. The islands could not be reached by any route other than the bridges, and every bridge must have been crossed completely every time (one could not walk half way onto the bridge and then turn around and later cross the other half from the other side). In 1735, Leonard Euler proved that the problem has no solution.

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Format

#> # A labelled, multiplex, undirected network with 4 nodes and 7 ties
#> # A tibble: 4 x 3
#>   name       lat   lon
#>   <chr>    <dbl> <dbl>
#> 1 Altstadt  54.7  20.5
#> 2 Kneiphof  54.7  20.5
#> 3 Lomse     54.7  20.5
#> 4 Vorstadt  54.7  20.5
#> # A tibble: 7 x 3
#>    from    to name
#>   <int> <int> <chr>
#> 1     1     2 Kraemer Bruecke
#> 2     1     2 Schmiedebruecke
#> 3     1     3 Holzbruecke
#> 4     2     3 Honigbruecke
#> 5     2     4 Gruene Bruecke
#> 6     2     4 Koettelbruecke
#> # i 1 more row

Source

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References

Euler, Leonard. 1741. “Solutio problematis ad geometriam situs pertinentis.” Commentarii academiae scientiarum Petropolitanae.