Peter Fishburn

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Peter C. Fishburn (* 1936 in Philipsburg Pennsylvania ) is an American mathematician who dealt with operations research , especially decision theory and social choice theory .

Fishburn received his bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from Pennsylvania State University in 1958 and his master's degree from the Case Institute of Technology in 1961 , where he received his PhD in operations research in 1962. From 1964 to 1970 he was with the Research Analysis Corporation in McLean (Virginia) and 1970/71 at the Institute for Advanced Study . In 1967 he was visiting professor at the Technical University of Denmark in Lyngby. From 1971 to 1978 he was a research professor in management science at Pennsylvania State University and from 1978 to 2001 he was at the Information Science Research Center of ATT Laboratories in Florham Park , New Jersey .

He is best known for working with Steven Brams on Choice by Consent (1977).

In 1996 he received the John von Neumann Theory Prize . In 1984 he became a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics . In 1970 he received the Lanchester Prize of the Operations Research Society of America and in 1987 its Ramsey Medal.

Fonts

  • with Steven Brams: Approval Voting, Birkhäuser 1983, 2nd edition Springer 2006
  • Decision and Value Theory, Publications in Operations Research, No. 10, Wiley 1964
  • Utility Theory for Decision Making. Publications in Operations Research, No. 18, Wiley 1970
  • Mathematics of Decision Theory, Methods and Models in the Social Sciences, Volume 3, Den Haag: Mouton 1972 (also translated into French)
  • The Theory of Social Choice, Princeton University Press 1973
  • The Foundations of Expected Utility. Theory and Decision Library, Volume 31, Dordrecht: D. Reidel 1982.
  • Interval Orders and Interval Graphs: A Study of Partially Ordered Sets, Wiley 1985
  • Nonlinear Preference and Utility Theory, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988
  • Choice Under Uncertainty. Annals of Operations Research, Volume 19, 1989.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biographical data according to Mark Blaug, Howard Vane: Who's Who in Economics
personal data
SURNAME Fishburn, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fishburn, Peter C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Philipsburg, Pennsylvania