R. Duncan Luce (1925 to 2012) was an American mathematician and social scientist and one of the most preeminent figures in the field of mathematical psychology. He took a bachelor degree in aeronautical engineering at MIT in 1945 and a PhD in mathematics there in 1950 under Irvin S. Cohen, then held posts at Columbia, Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, UC Irvine and the Institute for Advanced Study. He formulated Luce choice axiom, which holds that additional options should not change the probability of choosing one item over another, defined semiorders, introduced graph-theoretic methods into the social sciences and coined the term clique for a complete subgraph. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1972 and received the 2003 National Medal of Science in behavioral and social science.
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was an American mathematician and social scientist
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He began his professorial career at Columbia University in 1954
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was an American mathematician and social scientist
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one of the most preeminent figures in the field of mathematical psychology
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