Monday, July 27, 2009

The seven bridges of Kaliningrad

I made a brief stop in Kaliningrad before going to Poland, and the only thing I will mention about it is this nerdy math problem. Some total nerd wants me to talk about it so I gave in to her badgering.

Kaliningrad used to have seven bridges, only two remain. The problem is could you walk through the city and cross over all seven of them (completely, not half way and then retreating) only once. They were laid out like this.

This problem was first solved by the Swiss Mathmatician Leonhard Euler.

Why am I calling it Kaliningrad and not Konigsberg its original name? Well, unlike Leningrad, it is still named after Mikhail Kalinin.
This is despite the fact that Kalinin was one of the most loyal Stalinists. He even allowed is own wife to be arrested and sent to a labor camp. She was thrown naked into a freezing cellar, beaten and forced to change her testimony that she was a rightist spy. (I would never do this to kendra.) Anyway, it is better than naming a city after a king.

12 comments:

  1. how come you never answer my questions?
    it is very rude, i bet Kendra would never be this rude(maybe a little bit.

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  2. for who? nobody reads your blogs :D Loser

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  3. that is mean summer, and I have been looking all over for hot guys for you

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  4. sorry, i meet this really cute guy in soup kitchen, he travels around the world, he is in ny for one month, but he has hair all the way up to his adam apple(whatever you call it)worst than nazmul, which was a surprise, his wife was pretty also

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  5. back off, summer. he has a wife. second thought...go for it!

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  6. don't be a homewrecker, homewrecker! all you yellows are the same...

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  7. What's the math answer? I've spent 2 minutes trying to figure out the bridge thing and I give up.

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  8. sorry, his solution was to prove that it couldn't be solved

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  9. what kind of ghetto ass solution is that? and kendra, all you yellow people are the same, you do realize there is a few billion of us against the few of you guys

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  10. För mycket,"Snitsnack"!!..

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