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Re:Coding Horror: Monty Hall, Monty Fall, Monty Crawl by vinutheraj on Monday June 22, 2009 @02:04PM (#669169)
When told of this, Paul Erdos, one of the leading mathematicians of the 20th century, said, "That's impossible." Then, when presented with a formal mathematical proof of the correct answer, he still didn't believe it and grew angry. Only after a colleague arranged for a computer simulation in which Erdos watched hundreds of trials that came out 2-to-1 in favor of switching did Erdos concede that he was wrong.

Can somebody please verify this from source, seriously !!

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Re:Coding Horror: Monty Hall, Monty Fall, Monty Crawl by michael_dorfman on Monday June 22, 2009 @02:28PM (#669207)
Sure.

It's the main subject of Chapter 6 of "The Man Who Loved Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdős and the Search for Mathematical Truth", by Paul Hoffman. He quotes Andrew Vázsonyi (who introduced the problem to Erdős) and Ronald Graham (who provided the proof that finally convinced Erdős).

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Re:Coding Horror: Monty Hall, Monty Fall, Monty Crawl by slackenerny on Monday June 22, 2009 @02:35PM (#669217)
http://books.google.com/books?dq=ron+graham+1998+erdos+bayes...
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