Abstract
It seems to be generally agreed among researchers that the Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games column in the February 1960 issue of Scientific American is the first statement of the secretary problem. Since then the problem has been extended and generalized in many different directions. The object of this article is to show how extensive and vast the field has grown and review the recent works of interest, especially published in the last decade. For the previous works, the reader is referred to review papers by Ferguson (1989) or Samuels (1991).
