My favorite write up was by Monty Hall and John Tierney in 1991. http://www.mathpuzzle.com/MontyHall.txt --Ed --- On Wed, 10/28/09, James Propp <jpropp@cs.uml.edu> wrote: From: James Propp <jpropp@cs.uml.edu> Subject: [math-fun] best published explanation of the Monty Hall Paradox? To: math-fun@mailman.xmission.com Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2009, 2:17 PM What book or magazine article or website has the best (in your opinion) written explanation of the Monty Hall Paradox for the lay reader? (Obviously the best way to explain something mathematical to anyone is through a dialogue in which the teacher gets information from the student about the student's state of understanding and changes tactics accordingly; but I'm looking for the best canned explanation that you've seen.) Did Martin Gardner ever try his hand at explaining the paradox? Jim _______________________________________________ math-fun mailing list math-fun@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/math-fun