The Mathematics of Coordinated Inference A Study of Generalized Hat Problems /

• Main Authors: Hardin, Christopher S. (Author), Taylor, Alan D. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Developments in Mathematics, 33
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Game theory.; Mathematical logic.; Topology.; Mathematical Logic and Foundations.; Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences.

Two prisoners are told that they will be brought to a room and seated so that each can see the other. Hats will be placed on their heads; each hat is either red or green. The two prisoners must simultaneously submit a guess of their own hat color, and they both go free if at least one of them guesse...