Peter Clingerman Fishburn (September 2, 1936 – June 10, 2021) was an American mathematician, known as a pioneer in the field ofdecision theory. In collaboration withSteven Brams, Fishburn published a paper aboutapproval voting in 1978.^[1]

Fishburn received his B.S. inindustrial engineering fromPennsylvania State University in 1958, his M.S. inoperations research in 1961, and a Ph.D. in operations research in 1962, the latter two from theCase Institute of Technology.

In collaboration withSteven Brams, Fishburn published a paper aboutapproval voting in 1978.^[1] In 1996, he won theJohn 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 ofFellows of theInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.^[4]

Fishburn retired after many years of research atAT&T Bell Laboratories in the state ofNew Jersey, United States. He was married to the theologian Janet Forsythe Fishburn. He died on June 10, 2021, in Racine, Wisconsin.^[5]

• 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.

Scholia has a profile forPeter C. Fishburn(Q3376572).

• Bibliography of Peter Fishburn's publications at theWayback Machine (archived 16 July 2012)
• Biography of Peter Fishburn from the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
• Peter C. Fishburn at theMathematics Genealogy Project

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• John von Neumann Theory Prize winners
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• Voting theorists
• Fellows of the Econometric Society
• Fellows of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences

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