Peter C. Fishburn (born 1936) is known as a pioneer in the field of decision-making processes.
He 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, he devised approval voting in 1977. In 1996, he won the John von Neumann Prize.
He has retired after many years of research at AT&T Bell Laboratories in the state of New Jersey, United States. He is married to the theologian Janet Forsythe Fishburn.
He has an Erdős number of 1.
Famous quotes containing the words peter c and/or peter:
“Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement of death.”
—Peter Conrad (b. 1948)
“When the Day of Judgement dawns and the great conquerors and lawyers and statesmen come to receive their rewards—their crowns, their laurels, their names carved indelibly upon imperishable marble—the Almighty will turn to Peter and will say, not without a certain envy when he sees us coming with our books under our arms, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them here. They have loved reading.””
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)