Ariles Remaki is a PhD student in history and philosophy of sciences at the Sphère laboratory (Université de Paris). Graduated from a master's degree in advanced mathematics at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, in the field of probability, he started a thesis in 2017 on the epistemological status of combinatorics within the work of the German philosopher G.W. Leibniz. He is particularly interested in questions relating to discovery methods and the explanatory role of induction in the field of combinations.