Peter C. Fishburn
Peter C. Fishburn | |
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Born | (1936-09-02)2 September 1936 |
Died | 10 June 2021(2021-06-10) (aged 84) Racine, Wisconsin |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Pennsylvania State University (M.S.) Case Institute of Technology (Ph. D) |
Known for | Decision Theory |
Awards | John von Neumann Theory Prize (1996) Decision Analysis Publication Award Frank P. Ramsey Medal |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Decision Theory |
Institutions | AT&T Bell Laboratories |
Thesis | A Normative Theory of Decisions under Risk (1962) |
Doctoral advisor | Russell Ackoff |
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.
- 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.
Notes
- ^ a b Brams, Steven J.; Fishburn, Peter C. (September 1978). "Approval Voting". American Political Science Review. 72 (3): 831–847. doi:10.2307/1955105. ISSN 0003-0554. JSTOR 1955105. S2CID 251092061.
- ^ "Decision Analysis Publication Award - INFORMS". www.informs.org. Archived from the original on 12 September 2015. Retrieved 19 April 2022.
- ^ "Peter C. Fishburn". Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences. Archived from the original on 2012-09-05. Retrieved 2012-12-16.
- ^ Fellows: Alphabetical List, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, archived from the original on 2019-05-10, retrieved 2019-10-09
- ^ "Peter Clingerman Fishburn Obituary (1936–2021) Centre Daily Times". Legacy.com.
External links
- 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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