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1 Graph Theory Begin at the beginning, the King said, gravely, and go on till youcome to the end; then stop. Lewis Carroll,Alice in WonderlandThe Pregolya River passes through a city once known as K onigsberg. In the 1700sseven bridges were situated across this river in a manner similar to what you seein Figure The city s residents enjoyed strolling on these bridges, but, as hardas they tried, no resident of the city was ever able to walk a route that crossed eachof these bridges exactly once. The Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler learnedof this frustrating phenomenon, and in 1736 he wrote an article [98] about work on the K onigsberg Bridge Problem is considered by many to be thebeginning of the field of Graph The bridges in K Harris et al.,Combinatorics and Graph Theory , DOI: ,c Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 200821.
graph theory. Keep your eyes open for the Ko¨nigsberg Bridge Problem and the Four Color Problem, for we will encounter them along the way. 1.1 Introductory Concepts A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words. — Samuel Butler, Higgledy-Piggledy
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