According to Google maps there are now only five bridges, although the modern 
highway using two of them does not appear to have any get-offs. Even so the 
original problem can still stand.

From: Perit Alexei Pace 
Sent: Monday, April 15, 2013 2:54 AM
To: sundial 
Subject: Re: Today's Google Banner

The Konigsberg bridges dilemma is particularly intriguing when explained to the 
"non-mathematicians", I suggest you have a look at this for a thorough 
explanation 
http://www.ugr.es/~fmartin/gi/bridges.pdf

Alex


On 15 April 2013 10:21, Frank King <[email protected]> wrote:

  Has anyone else on this list enjoyed
  today's Google Banner?

  It includes:

     The celestial sphere

     Two Platonic solids

     The relationship...
       Vertices - Edges + Faces = 2

     [This doesn't hold in pathological
      cases by the way!]

     The Seven-Bridges-of-Konigsberg
     problem

     A state diagram

     An argand diagram

     The relationship  -1 = e^(i.pi)

  Frank King
  Cambridge, UK

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