Peter C. Fishburn

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

Fishburn received in 1958 his bachelor 's degree in industrial engineering from Pennsylvania State University and his master's degree in 1961 at Case Institute of Technology, where he was in 1962 a Ph.D. in Operations Research. 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 a visiting professor at the Technical University of Denmark in Lyngby. 1971-1978 he was a Research Professor of 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 known for working with Steven Brams on election 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 was awarded the Lanchester Prize of the Operations Research Society of America in 1987 and their Ramsey Medal.

Writings

  • With Steven Brams: Approval Voting, Birkhauser 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, The Hague: Mouton, 1972 ( 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.
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