Sentence examples for bridge problem from inspiring English sources

He became the father of graph theory when he settled the Königsberg bridge problem, and his famous conjecture on Latin squares was not resolved until 1959.

The history of graph theory may be specifically traced to 1735, when the Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler solved the Königsberg bridge problem.

But a study has already looked at various options for the Bayonne Bridge problem and presumably has rejected that one, because it has instead recommended raising the bridge's roadbed by 64 feet.

Graph theory is generally thought of as originating with the "Königsberg bridge problem," which asked whether a walker could cross the seven bridges of Königsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia), once each without crossing any of them twice.

The Königsberg bridge problem was an old puzzle concerning the possibility of finding a path over every one of seven bridges that span a forked river flowing past an island but without crossing any bridge twice.

Thus, in Figure 15, B and C can be traversed by Eulerian paths; D and E cannot; F shows a network corresponding to the Königsberg bridge problem, in which the points represent the land areas and the edges the seven bridges.

Do you like to solve bridge problems?

"Bridge Problems for a New Millennium" is by an English writer, Julian Pottage.

"A First Book of Bridge Problems" by Patrick O'Connor features 50 problems aimed at players who have completed a comprehensive beginner course.

Two published this year were "Boehm's Card Play Essentials" by August W. Boehm (A. L. Ayers Printing) and "A First Book of Bridge Problems" by Patrick O'Connor (Master Point Press).

Their part in this intervention was mainly to lead discussions of the abstraction bridge problems.