Probabilistic Proofs of Non-probabilistic Theorems

Probabilistic Proofs Of Non-probabilistic Theorems

Probability theory routinely uses results from other fields of mathematics (mostly, analysis). The opposite cases, collected below, are relatively rare; however, probability theory is used systematically in combinatorics via the probabilistic method. They are particularly used for non-constructive proofs.

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