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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 1978.² In 1996, he won the John von Neumann Theory Prize. He also won the Decision Analysis Publication Award in 1991³ and the Frank P. Ramsey Medal in 1987.⁴

He was elected to the 2002 class of Fellows of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.⁵

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.⁶

See also

• Fishburn set
• Fishburn–Shepp inequality
• Maximal lotteries

• 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

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

References

1. 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. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/abs/approval-voting/7CE5DEEE235794B0B12F76ADAE621482 ↩

2. 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. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/abs/approval-voting/7CE5DEEE235794B0B12F76ADAE621482 ↩

3. "Decision Analysis Publication Award - INFORMS". www.informs.org. Archived from the original on 12 September 2015. Retrieved 19 April 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20150912104524/https://www.informs.org/Recognize-Excellence/Community-Prizes-and-Awards/Decision-Analysis-Society/Decision-Analysis-Publication-Award ↩

4. "Peter C. Fishburn". Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences. Archived from the original on 2012-09-05. Retrieved 2012-12-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20120905080712/http://www.informs.org/Recognize-Excellence/Award-Recipients/Peter-C.-Fishburn ↩

5. Fellows: Alphabetical List, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, archived from the original on 2019-05-10, retrieved 2019-10-09 https://web.archive.org/web/20190510220119/https://www.informs.org/Recognizing-Excellence/Fellows/Fellows-Alphabetical-List ↩

6. "Peter Clingerman Fishburn Obituary (1936–2021) Centre Daily Times". Legacy.com. https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/centredaily/obituary.aspx?n=peter-clingerman-fishburn&pid=199009461 ↩