Submitted by David Assink — Konigsberg

There are many names that dominate the world of mathematics, from Euclid to Fermat to Riemann. One name though pervades nearly every eld of study in mathematics, that of Leonhard Euler. Euler is known not only for his innovation and creativity, but also for the sheer volume of high quality work. Within this collection of work we can actually see the informal introduction of a new field of mathematics, the pre-creation if you will of graph theory. Euler, in his paper which appeared in Commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitane, published in 1736, tackles the Bridges of Konigsberg Problem, which can be considered as \the starting point of modern graph theory.”