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Graph Theory: Wolf, Sheep & Cabbage

Use Graph Theory to transport a wolf🐺 , sheep 🐑 and cabbage 🥗 across a river. Or use it to figure out how you can cross the 7 bridges of Konigsberg without crossing the same bridge twice. Or how about figuring out how to get from point A to point B?

Graph Theory is a field in mathemetatics that studies graphs. It can be applied to many problems and was invented in the 1736 by Leonhard Euler.

Sources

This video wouldn't be possible without the work of others. Here are the sources I've used during my research & script writing:

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