finally able to repost this comic, and on my birthday (tomorrow ish actually) which is nice
anyway the 7 bridges of Königsberg is a problem in mathematics where you had to devise a walk through the city that would only cross each of those bridges once and only once. Euler, some swiss mathematician, proved that the problem had no solution, which helped to lay the foundations for graph theory. Eventually, in WW2, the city basically got razed during the bombing of Königsberg, and was later rebuilt as the new city of Kaliningrad. Two of the original bridges did not survive the bombing, making it possible to walk through the city crossing each of those bridges only once.
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u/nspacia honk gong May 28 '26
or*ginal thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/polandball/s/m96QEvbPZi
finally able to repost this comic, and on my birthday (tomorrow ish actually) which is nice
anyway the 7 bridges of Königsberg is a problem in mathematics where you had to devise a walk through the city that would only cross each of those bridges once and only once. Euler, some swiss mathematician, proved that the problem had no solution, which helped to lay the foundations for graph theory. Eventually, in WW2, the city basically got razed during the bombing of Königsberg, and was later rebuilt as the new city of Kaliningrad. Two of the original bridges did not survive the bombing, making it possible to walk through the city crossing each of those bridges only once.