Bahia threw away all the tranquility it had built throughout the campaign in Serie B and reached the last round without confirming access, still fighting for one of the two vacancies that remain available after the early classification of Cruzeiro and Grêmio. The decisive games will take place on Sunday, …
Read More »Lessons from the bridges of Königsberg serve the internet and the study of the brain – 02/08/2022 – Marcelo Viana
At the beginning of the 18th century, the Prussian city of Königsberg was divided into four regions separated by branches of the River Pregel: the two banks, the island of Kneiphof, and the district of Lomse. Connecting them were seven bridges: Kneiphof had two bridges to each bank, Lomse had …
Read More »The mystery of the Königsberg bridges – 07/26/2022 – Marcelo Viana
I like to tell this story to explain why math is so much more than “the science of numbers”, because it’s a tale of beautiful math ideas that have little or nothing to do with numbers. Ironically, the hero, the great Leonhard Euler (1707–1783), had a different opinion. But we …
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