id: 05608348 dt: j an: 05608348 au: De Werra, Dominique ti: From L. Euler to D. König. so: RAIRO, Oper. Res. 43, No. 3, 247-251 (2009). py: 2009 pu: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge; EDP Sciences, Les Ulis la: EN cc: ut: graph theory; edge colouring; König theorem ci: li: doi:10.1051/ro/2009020 ab: The author shows how Dénes König’s (1884-1944) theorem on the chromatic index of a bipartite multigraph can be derived using Leonhard Euler’s (1707-1783) theorem on Eulerian chains generalising the famous Königsberg bridge problem. rv: Gregor Nickel (Siegen)