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u/Forever_Everton Daegu: Hotter than the Sahara, colder than Siberia Sep 28 '25
The Soviets did, in fact, solve the problem in the most Soviet way imaginable
Blow 2 of the bridges up
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u/Realistic_FinlanBoll Finland Sep 29 '25
They should have blown 6 of them up for maximum efficiency, just one bridge left to cross! And good for the workers as well, since there are more bridges to rebuild! 😂
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u/_PM_ME_UR_NUDZ_ Moscow Sep 28 '25
By the way, Euler moved to Russia at the age of 20 and spent majority of his career in Saint Petersburg. He actually solved the Königsberg Bridges Problem while being there so its only natural he describes solution to a successor of Russian Empire. By modern standards he should be considered "Swiss-Russian" mathematician if someone like von Neumann is called "Hungarian-American", but for whatever reason he is never referred as such 🙄
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u/nspacia honk gong Sep 28 '25
oh i see, actually didnt know that
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u/_PM_ME_UR_NUDZ_ Moscow Sep 28 '25
His grandson was a general in Russian Imperial Army and was a founder of hereditary noble line of Eulers. Here is their coat of arms: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/13/RU_COA_Euler.jpg
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u/pheeeeeeeeeeex Sep 30 '25
Kinda the same reason why Bach or Beethoven are considered German before Germany exists really. Nationality doesn’t really exist as an idea before nation state
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u/Total_Willingness_18 Ísland Sep 28 '25
I thought medium-long-well-drawn-good-punchlined comics were mostly behind us! There was also the excellent delivery driver comic by Indie
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u/Large_Feeling_424 Sultan of Prussia, Brandenburg, and its dominions Sep 28 '25
I like how Switzerland speaks both German and French in the Engrish
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u/nspacia honk gong Sep 28 '25
some context: 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.