Mathematician:Peter Clingerman Fishburn

Mathematician

American statistician known as a pioneer in the field of decision-making processes.

Nationality

American

History

• Born: 2 September 1936

Theorems and Definitions

• Fishburn Set
• Fishburn-Shepp Inequality (with Lawrence Alan Shepp)

Publications

• 1964: Decision and Value Theory
• 1968: Utility Theory (Manag. Sci. Vol. 14: pp. 335 – 378)  www.jstor.org/stable/2628674
• 1970: Utility Theory for Decision Making
• 1972: Mathematics of Decision Theory
• 1973: The Theory of Social Choice
• 1982: The Foundations of Expected Utility
• 1983: Approval Voting (with Steven J Brams)
• 1985: Interval Orders and Interval Graphs: A Study of Partially Ordered Sets
• 1988: Nonlinear Preference and Utility Theory
• 2007: Approval Voting (Second edition) (with Steven J Brams)