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Robert Duncan Luce (May 16, 1925 –
August 11, 2012) was an American mathematician and social
scientist, and one of the most preeminent figures in the field of mathematical psychology.
At the end of his life, he held the position of Distinguished Research
Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of California,
Irvine. Luce received a Bachelor of Science degree
in Aeronautical of Technology in 1945, and PhD in Mathematics from the same university in 1950 under Irvin S. Cohen with thesis On Semigroups. He
began his professorial career at Columbia University in
1954, where he was an assistant professor in mathematical statistics and
sociology. Following a lecturership at Harvard University from
1957 to 1959, he became a professor at the University of Pennsylvania in
1959, and was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Professorship of Psychology in
1968. After visiting the Institute for Advanced
Study beginning in 1969, he joined the UC Irvine faculty in
1972, but returned to Harvard in 1976 as Alfred North Whitehead Professor of
Psychology and then later as Victor S. Thomas Professor of Psychology. In 1988
Luce rejoined the UC Irvine faculty as Distinguished Professor of Cognitive
Sciences and (from 1988 to 1998) director of UCI's Institute for Mathematical
Behavioral Sciences. Luce was elected to
the National Academy
of Sciences in 1972 for his work on fundamental measurement,
utility theory, global psychophysics, and mathematical behavioral sciences. He
received the 2003 National Medal of Science in
behavioral and social science for his contributions to the field of
mathematical psychology. Contributions for which
Luce is known include formulating Luce's choice axiom formalizing
the principle that additional options should not affect the probability of
selecting one item over another, defining semiorders, introducing graph-theoretic methods into the social sciences, and
coining the term "clique" for a
complete subgraph in graph theory.
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