The Monty Hall Problem
Three doors, one car. The host opens a losing door and offers you the swap. Does it make any difference whether you take it?
1975 (posed), 1990 (made famous)9 min read
American biostatistics
Steve Selvin
1941
Professor of biostatistics at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1975 he wrote the short letter to The American Statistician that first posed, and then named, the Monty Hall problem.