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Ramsey theory is another field in which Erdős played a crucial role without being its originator. His use of the probabilistic method was essential to this theory, whose aim is to find the size of a set that guarantees the existence of a substructure possessing a given property.

Points and lines: let the maths festivities begin!
On a sheet of paper, you doodle a few points, join them with lines... and you're off! Trial and error, attempts, mistakes, partial successes, a conjecture... It's all there. Mathematics—graph theory in particular—joins the party.

Recognized amateurs
What is an amateur mathematician? Defining one is no easy task, especially since the concept has undoubtedly evolved over time. Nevertheless, we will look at a few examples, both past and present.

Dido's problem and isoperimetry | Tangente
For a given perimeter, the disk is the figure with the greatest area. This result, popularized by a trick attributed to Dido, the founder and first queen of Carthage, is the "isoperimetric theorem." It gave rise to many more general inequalities.
