"WON OVeR" is a poem by Lawrence Mark Lesser from The University of Texas at El Paso. The poem was written in 2022 and originally published in the January 2023 Journal of Humanistic Mathematics. The poem highlights the unexpected occurrence of the constant 1/e in two classic probability problems: “secretary problem”/”marriage problem” and “hats derangement problem”. The poem could be used either to motivate students to learn about those particular problems or to cap things off after working through them.
Source Code Available:
Source Code Not Available
Material Type:
Statistical Topic:
Copyrights:
Yes
Cost:
Free for Nonprofits