Matteo Farinella

Topology problems

In 6 Degrees Of Separation, Conversations, science on August 22, 2010 at 9:10 am

The Seven Bridges of Königsberg is a notable historical problem in mathematics. Its negative resolution by Leonhard Euler in 1735 laid the foundations of graph theory and presaged the idea of topology.

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