Peter C. Fishburn

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Peter Clingerman Fishburn (1936-2021) is known as a pioneer in the field of decision-making processes.

Biography[]

Intellectual[]

He received his B.S. in industrial engineering from Pennsylvania State University in 1958, his M.S. in operations research in 1961, and a Ph.D. in operations research in 1962, the latter two from the Case Institute of Technology.

In collaboration with Steven Brams, he devised approval voting in 1977. In 1996, he won the John von Neumann Theory Prize. He also won the Decision Analysis Publication Award in 1991 and the Frank P. Ramsey Medal in 1987.^[1]

He was elected to the 2002 class of Fellows of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.^[2]

Personal[]

He has retired after many years of research at AT&T Bell Laboratories in the state of New Jersey, United States. He was married to the theologian Janet Forsythe Fishburn. He passed away on June 10, 2021, in Racine, Wisconsin.^[3]

See also[]

• Fishburn set
• Fishburn–Shepp inequality
• Maximal lotteries

References[]

• Brams, Steven J., and Fishburn, Peter C. (1983), Approval Voting. Boston: Birkhäuser. Second edition (2007). New York: Springer.
• Fishburn, P.C. (1964), Decision and Value Theory. Publications in Operations Research, No. 10. New York: John Wiley and Sons.
• Fishburn, P.C. (1970), Utility Theory for Decision Making. Publications in Operations Research, No. 18. New York: John Wiley and Sons.
• Fishburn, Peter C. (1972), Mathematics of Decision Theory. Methods and Models in the Social Sciences, 3. The Hague: Mouton.
• Fishburn, Peter C. (1973), The Theory of Social Choice. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press.
• Fishburn, Peter C. (1982), The Foundations of Expected Utility. Theory and Decision Library, Vol. 31. Dordrecht: D. Reidel.
• Fishburn, Peter C. (1985). Interval Orders and Interval Graphs: A Study of Partially Ordered Sets. Wiley-Interscience Series in Discrete Mathematics. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
• Fishburn, Peter C. (1988), Nonlinear Preference and Utility Theory. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press.

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External links[]

Scholia has a profile for Peter C. Fishburn (Q3376572).

• Bibliography of Peter Fishburn's publications at the Wayback Machine (archived 16 July 2012)
• Biography of Peter Fishburn from the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
• Peter C. Fishburn at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

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