Peter C. Fishburn

Peter C. Fishburn
Peter C. Fishburn
Born	2 September 1936; Philipsburg, Pennsylvania
Died	10 June 2021 (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]

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.