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Mathematical recreations and essays (1911)

Ball, W. W. Rouse (Walter William Rouse), 1850-1925 · London, Macmillan and Co., limited · leaf 195

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171 CH. VIII ] UNICURSAL PROBLEMS will not be affected if we suppose the islands to diminish to points and the bridges to lengthen out. In this way we … ultimately obtain a geometrical figure or network. In the Konigsberg problem this figure is of the shape indicated below, the areas being represented by the points A, B , C, Z), and the bridges being represented by the lines Z, m, ny p , q, r, s. Euler’s problem consists therefore in finding…

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