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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Mathematical Physics Volume 2009, Article ID 180159, 12 pages doi:10.1155/2009/180159 Review Article Constructive Field Theory in Zero Dimension V. Rivasseau Laboratoire de Physique Theorique, CNRS UMR 8627, Universite Paris XI, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France ´ ´ Correspondence should be addressed to V. Rivasseau, vincent.rivasseau@ Received 28 June 2009; Accepted 29 September 2009 Recommended by M. N. Hounkonnou Constructive field theory can be considered as a reorganization of perturbation theory in a convergent way. In this pedagogical note we propose to wander through five different methods to compute the number of connected graphs of the zero-dimensional φ4 field theory, in increasing order of sophistication and power. Copyright q 2009 V. Rivasseau. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. 1. Introduction New constructive Bosonic field theory methods have been recently proposed which are based on applying a canonical forest formula to repackage perturbation theory in a better way. This allows to compute the connected quantities of the theory by the same formula but summed over trees instead of forests. Constructive Fermionic field theory is easier and was repackaged in terms of trees much earlier 1–3. The resulting formulation of the theory is given by a convergent rather than divergent expansion. In short this is because there are much less trees than graphs, but they still capture the vital physical information, which is connectedness. Combining such a forest formula