Three prisoners problem

The three prisoners problem appeared in Martin Gardner's "Mathematical Games" column in Scientific American in 1959.[1][2] It is mathematically equivalent to the Monty Hall problem with car and goat replaced respectively with freedom and execution.[3]

  1. ^ Gardner, Martin (October 1959). "Mathematical Games: Problems involving questions of probability and ambiguity". Scientific American. 201 (4): 174–182. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1059-174.
  2. ^ Gardner, Martin (1959). "Mathematical Games: How three modern mathematicians disproved a celebrated conjecture of Leonhard Euler". Scientific American. 201 (5): 188. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1159-181.
  3. ^ Bailey, Herb (2000). "Monty Hall Uses a Mixed Strategy". Mathematics Magazine. 73 (2): 135–141. JSTOR 2691085.

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