Mathematics in the modern age - The 18th century: Crossing bridges
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Gresham College Lectures
Mathematics in the modern age - The 18th century: Crossing bridges
Oct 04, 2006
Gresham College
What shape is the Earth? how do strings vibrate? can you construct a 65,537-sided polygon? and can you cross the seven bridges of Konigsberg? While British mathematics drowned in Newtonianism, major bridges were being crossed on the Continent ...

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