How the Seven Bridges of Konigsberg Spawned New Math
Briefly

The problem stymied local thinkers, who eventually wrote a letter to famed mathematician Leonhard Euler (pronounced oiler) begging him to lay their curiosity to rest.
The first hurdle in wrangling any math problem is to strip away extraneous information until only the essential elements remain, a process called abstraction.
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