Peter C. Fishburn
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Template wrapper".Template:Main otherScript error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters". Peter Clingerman Fishburn (September 2, 1936 – June 10, 2021) was an American mathematician, known as a pioneer in the field of decision theory. In collaboration with Steven Brams, Fishburn published a paper about approval voting in 1978.[1]
Biography
Intellectual
Fishburn 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, Fishburn published a paper about approval voting in 1978.[1] In 1996, he won the John von Neumann Theory Prize. He also won the Decision Analysis Publication Award in 1991[2] and the Frank P. Ramsey Medal in 1987.[3]
He was elected to the 2002 class of Fellows of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.[4]
Personal
Fishburn 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 died on June 10, 2021, in Racine, Wisconsin.[5]
See also
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.
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- Fishburn, Peter C. (1988), Nonlinear Preference and Utility Theory. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press.
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- 1936 births
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- John von Neumann Theory Prize winners
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- American operations researchers
- Voting theorists
- Fellows of the Econometric Society
- Fellows of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences