The 47 Bridges of the Big Apple

Writing for The Business Insider, Andy Kiersz tackles the Big Apple analog of Euler's famous seven bridges of Königsberg problem.

With lots of maps, a brief history lesson, and a few jabs at residents of the city's outlying boroughs, Kiersz introduces readers to a problem "that represented some of the first work in what would become the modern mathematical areas of topology and graph theory."

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