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Graph theory may be said to have begun with the 1736 paper by the Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler (1707–1783) devoted to the Königsberg bridges problem. In the town of Königsberg (now Kaliningrad in western Russia), there were four land masses and seven bridges connecting them as shown in Fig. 1.1. The challenge was to leave home and to traverse each bridge exactly once and return home.
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Cioabă, S.M., Murty, M.R. (2022). Basic Graph Theory. In: A First Course in Graph Theory and Combinatorics. Texts and Readings in Mathematics, vol 55. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0957-3_1
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