I have been enjoying Marcus du Sautoy's fine podcast of famous mathematicians for BBC4.
Yesterday, I listened to the Leonhard Euler episode. While I always knew Euler was one of the top mathematicians of all time, his contributions are truly remarkable.
The podcast talks about how he solved the seven bridges of Konigsberg problem by inventing graph theory, and proving its first theorem. I looked at that theorem as it applies to a "kids game" in a previous blog.
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