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Byte Sized Episode 2: The Creation of Graph Theory

Vaidehi Joshi on August 01, 2019

Today's episode of Byte Sized is about Leonhard Euler and the creation of Graph Theory. For more about how Graph Theory works, check out this vide...
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Mario See

Learned two things:

  • that I've been pronouncing Euler wrong.
  • the origin story of graph theory!
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Ben Halpern

that I've been pronouncing Euler wrong

Story of my life. How does anyone even pronounce SQL anyway?

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Ross

Squeeel?

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Martin Kolodziejczyk

same here

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rhymes

Same here!

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Chad Windham

see-quil?

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Richard Guay

S - Q - L, I've never tried to make it into a word since it has no listed vowels.

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Sebastian Vargr

As sequential query language..? :D

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Nick Taylor

I've really been loving these videos Vaidehi. 🙌 Also, Ruby the silent actor stole the show for the Heroku advert. 🐕

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Vaidehi Joshi

I agree, Ruby + @ben are the real stars here :D

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Bhupesh Varshney 👾

That's true

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Ben Halpern • Edited

If you tried to tell me all of this in a 90 minute lecture I'd struggle to say the least.

Great little history lesson 👌

And I'm featured in the ad 😊

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Jess Lee

Thanks Leonhard!!

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Michael Tharrington

Oh man, anybody else hear this and really wanna play this game? Seems like it'd make an awesome backdrop for a scavenger hunt. 😀

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

I feel like our modern day equivalent of this story is solving a problem so much that you make a new framework 😅

Thanks for the history lesson!

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Sebastian Vargr

Nice to get some consolidation exactly how it is defined, thanks!

GraphQL's name now makes sense to me! :)

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Theofanis Despoudis

You look great on Camera Ben. Next stop Hollywood

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rhymes

Thanks!!

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Mark Sta Ana

This wonderful story behind the origins of Graph Theory. Really enjoyed it thank you!

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Fabio Russo

Very nice video, love It!

P.S.: Your dog is almost identical to mine, so sweet.

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Hashim Warren

🤔how do i get my video embeds to show nice like that?