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Graph theory may be said to have begun in the 1736 paper by Leonhard Euler (1707–1783) devoted to the Königsberg bridge problem. In the town of Königsberg (now Kaliningrad in western Russia), there were two islands and seven bridges connected as shown in the figure below. 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. (2009). Basic Notions of Graph Theory. In: A First Course in Graph Theory and Combinatorics. Texts and Readings in Mathematics, vol 55. Hindustan Book Agency, Gurgaon. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-93-86279-39-2_1
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