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Three prisoners problem

Not to be confused with Prisoner's dilemma, Hangman paradox, or Prisoners and hats puzzle.

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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