Peter C. Fishburn

Peter Clingerman Fishburn was an American mathematician, known as a pioneer in the field of decision theory. In collaboration with Steven Brams, Fishburn published a paper about approval voting in 1978.

Biography

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. In 1996, he won the John [von Neumann Theory Prize]. He also won the Decision Analysis Publication Award in 1991 and the Frank P. Ramsey Medal in 1987.
He was elected to the 2002 class of Fellows of the Institute for [Operations Research and the Management Sciences].

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.