Pi Mu Epsilon, the national mathematics honor society, hosted assistant professors Debra Mimbs and Laura Singletary from Lee University in Tennessee on Sept. 30, 2015.
The talk examined the famous Konigsberg Bridge Problem: is it possible to stroll through the town of Konigsberg by crossing each of the town’s seven bridges once and only once? The speakers explained how famous mathematician Leonard Euler answered this question in the negative in 1736 and simultaneously laid the foundation for the beginning of the field of mathematics known as graph theory.
Two students won door prizes: Carey Bina ’17 and Sarah Allen ’18.