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The techniques presented in this chapter for asserting the existence of mathematical objects with a certain property will at first sight appear as a collection of tricks, but as one gets used to it, some unity emerges from the recurrence of these tricks that henceforth deserve to be called “tools”. One can of course strive to give a unified theoretical treatment to the probabilistic method.
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Brémaud, P. (2017). The probabilistic Method. In: Discrete Probability Models and Methods. Probability Theory and Stochastic Modelling, vol 78. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43476-6_5
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