Martin Gardner's Mistake
Probability
2013-06-25 v1 History and Overview
Abstract
When Martin Gardner first presented the Two-Children problem, he made a mistake in its solution. Later he corrected the mistake in another publication, but unfortunately his incorrect solution is more widely known than his correction. In fact, a Tuesday-Child variation of this problem went viral in 2010, and the same flaw keeps reappearing in solutions for that problem as well. In this article, I would like to popularize Martin Gardner's correction and conduct a detailed discussion of the new problem.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1102.0173,
title = {Martin Gardner's Mistake},
author = {Tanya Khovanova},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1102.0173},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
10 pages