Mathematician:John Winsor Pratt
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Mathematician
American mathematician who has made contributions to research in risk aversion theory.
Nationality
American
History
- Born: 11 September 1931 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Theorems and Definitions
Results named for John Winsor Pratt can be found here.
Publications
- 1964: Risk Aversion in the Small and in the Large (Econometrica Vol. 32, no. 1/2: pp. 122 – 136) www.jstor.org/stable/1913738
- 1964: The Foundations of Decisions under Uncertainty: An Elementary Exposition (JASA Vol. 59: pp. 353 – 375) (with Howard Raiffa and Robert Schlaifer) www.jstor.org/stable/2282993
- 1965: Introduction to Statistical Decision Theory (with Howard Raiffa and Robert Schlaifer)