In 1990, Marilyn vos Savant riled up scores of mathematicians with her solution to the “Monty Hall Problem.” But she was right. The following is an excerpt from Proof: The Art and Science of Certainty ...
Puzzles with counterintuitive solutions do more than challenge us. They expose how easily our fast, reflexive thinking can lead us astray. When the Monty Hall problem was first posed by Marilyn Vos ...
The host invites you to pick a door, any door. Let’s say you pick door one. The host throws open one of the doors you did not select, revealing a goat. Then the host gives you the option of switching ...
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