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Thomas L. Saaty (born 1926 in Mosul, Iraq)^[1] is an American mathematician serving as University Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, where he teaches in the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business. He is the inventor, architect, and primary theoretician of the Analytic Hierarchy Process, a decision-making framework used for large-scale, multiparty, multi-criteria decision analysis, and of the Analytic Network Process, its generalization to decisions with dependence and feedback.

Tobi Ayanleke has nbnvnvcncfmade contributions in the fields of operations research (parametric linear programming, epidemics and the spread of biological agents, queuing theory, and behavioral mathematics as it relates to operations), arms control and disarmament, and urban design. He has written more than 30 books and 300 papers on mathematics, operations research, and decision making. Their subjects include graph theory and its applications, nonlinear mathematics, analytical planning, and game theory and conflict resolution.

Saaty has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (2005), and the Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales (Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences, 1971). In 1973, he received the Lester R. Ford Award from the Mathematical Association of America for his work on the four color problem, and in 2000 he was awarded the gold medal of the International Society on Multi-criteria Decision Making. He is the 2007 recipient of the Akao Prize of the QFD Institute.

Prior to coming to the University of Pittsburgh, Dr. Saaty was professor of statistics and operations research at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (1969-79). Prior to that, he spent fifteen years working for U.S. government agencies and for companies doing government-sponsored research. His employers at that time included the Operations Evaluation Group of MIT at the Pentagon, the Office of Naval Research, and the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency at the U.S. State Department.

Degrees

PhD, Mathematics, Yale University, 1953 (thesis, under Einar Carl Hille: "On the Bessel Tricomi Equation"). Post-graduate study, University of Paris, 1952-53. MA, Mathematics, Yale University, 1951. MS, Physics, Catholic University of America, 1949. BA, Columbia Union College, 1948.

References and external links

^ Faculty appointments from Wharton (Nov 14, 1969)

Bibliography

Analytic hierarchy process (AHP)

1980 The Analytic Hierarchy Process: Planning, Priority Setting, Resource Allocation, ISBN 0-07-054371-2, McGraw-Hill
1982 Decision Making for Leaders: The Analytical Hierarchy Process for Decisions in a Complex World, ISBN 0-534-97959-9, Wadsworth. 1988, Paperback, ISBN 0-9620317-0-4, RWS
1982 The Logic of Priorities: Applications in Business, Energy, Health, and Transportation, with Luis G. Vargas, ISBN 0-89838-071-5 (Hardcover) ISBN 0-89838-078-2 (Paperback), Kluwer-Nijhoff
1985 Analytical Planning: The Organization of Systems, with Kevin P. Kearns, ISBN 0-08-032599-8, Pergamon
1991 Prediction, Projection and Forecasting: Applications of the Analytic Hierarchy Process in Economics, Finance, Politics, Games and Sports, with Luis G. Vargas, ISBN 0-7923-9104-7, Kluwer Academic
1992 The Hierarchon: A Dictionary of Hierarchies, with Ernest H. Forman, ISBN 0-9620317-5-5, RWS
1994 Fundamentals of Decision Making and Priority Theory with the Analytic Hierarchy Process, ISBN 0-9620317-6-3, RWS
1994 Decision Making in Economic, Social and Technological Environments, with Luis G. Vargas, ISBN 0-9620317-7-1, RWS
1996 Vol. III and IV of the Analytic Hierarchy Process Series, ISBN 1-888603-07-0 RWS
2001 Models, Methods, Concepts & Applications of the Analytic Hierarchy Process, with Luis G. Vargas, ISBN 0-7923-7267-0, Kluwer Academic
2007 Group Decision Making: Drawing Out and Reconciling Differences, with Kirti Peniwati, ISBN 1-888603-08-9, RWS

Analytic network process (ANP)

1996 Decision Making with Dependence and Feedback: The Analytic Network Process, ISBN 0-9620317-9-8, RWS
2005 Theory and Applications of the Analytic Network Process: Decision Making with Benefits, Opportunities, Costs and Risks, ISBN 1-888603-06-2, RWS
2005 The Encyclicon, A Dictionary of Decisions with Dependence and Feedback based on the Analytic Network Process, with Müjgan S. Özdemir, ISBN 1-888603-05-4, RWS
2006 Decision Making with the Analytic Network Process: Economic, Political, Social and Technological Applications with Benefits, Opportunities, Costs and Risks, with Luis G. Vargas, ISBN 0-387-33859-4, Springer
2008 (forthcoming) The Encyclicon, Volume 2: A Dictionary of Complex Decisions using the Analytic Network Process, with Brady Cillo, ISBN 1-888603-09-7, RWS

Neural network process (NNP)

1999 The Brain: Unraveling the Mystery of How it Works, The Neural Network Process, ISBN 1-888603-02-X, RWS

Operations research

1959 Mathematical Methods of Operations Research, no ISBN (translated into Japanese and Russian), McGraw-Hill. 1988 Extended edition, ISBN 0-486-65703-5, Dover (paperback)
1961 Elements of Queueing Theory with Applications, no ISBN (translated into Russian, Spanish and German), McGraw-Hill

Mathematics

1964 Nonlinear Mathematics, with J. Bram, no ISBN, McGraw-Hill. 1981 Reprinted as ISBN 0-486-64233-X, Dover (paperback)
1964-1965 Lectures on Modern Mathematics, Volumes I, II, III (Thomas L. Saaty, Editor), no ISBN (translated into Japanese), John Wiley
1965 Finite Graphs and Networks, with R. Busacker, no ISBN (translated into Japanese, Russian, German and Hungarian), McGraw-Hill
1967 Modern Nonlinear Equations, no ISBN, McGraw-Hill. 1981, reprinted as ISBN 0-486-64232-1, Dover (paperback)
1969 The Spirit and Uses of the Mathematical Sciences, (Thomas L. Saaty, Editor, with F.J. Weyl), no ISBN, McGraw-Hill
1970 Optimization in Integers and Related Extremal Problems, no ISBN (translated into Russian), McGraw-Hill
1977 The Four-Color Problem; Assaults and Conquest, ISBN 0-07-054382-8, with Paul C. Kainen, McGraw-Hill. 1986 Revised edition, ISBN 0-486-65092-8, Dover (paperback)

Applied mathematics

1968 Mathematical Models of Arms Control and Disarmament', no ISBN, (translated into Russian), Wiley
1973 Topics in Behavioral Mathematics, no ISBN, Mathematical Association of America
1981 Thinking with Models: Mathematical Models in the Physical, Biological, and Social Sciences, with Joyce Alexander, hardback ISBN 0-08-026475-1, paperback ISBN 0-08-026474, Pergamon

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 '''Thomas L. Saaty''' (born [[1926]] in [[Mosul]],  [[Iraq]])<ref>[http://www.archives.upenn.edu/primdocs/upa/upa1_1/60s/19691114a1.pdf Faculty appointments] from [[Wharton]] (Nov 14, 1969)</ref> is an American [[mathematician]] serving as [http://www.provost.pitt.edu/faculty-affairs/distinguished.html University Professor] at the [[University of Pittsburgh]], where he teaches in the [[Joseph M. Katz School of Business|Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business]]. He is the inventor, architect, and primary theoretician of the [[Analytic Hierarchy Process]], a decision-making framework used for large-scale, multiparty, [[multi-criteria decision analysis]], and of the [[Analytic Network Process]], its generalization to decisions with dependence and feedback.
-Dr. Saaty has nbnvnvcncfmade contributions in the fields of [[operations research]] (parametric linear programming, [[epidemics]] and the spread of [[biological agents]], [[queuing theory]], and behavioral mathematics as it relates to operations), [[arms control]] and [[disarmament]], and [[urban design]]. He has written more than 30 books and 300 papers on mathematics, [[operations research]], and [[decision making]]. Their subjects include [[graph theory]] and its applications, [[nonlinearity|nonlinear mathematics]], analytical [[planning]], and [[game theory]] and [[conflict resolution]].
+Tobi Ayanleke has nbnvnvcncfmade contributions in the fields of [[operations research]] (parametric linear programming, [[epidemics]] and the spread of [[biological agents]], [[queuing theory]], and behavioral mathematics as it relates to operations), [[arms control]] and [[disarmament]], and [[urban design]]. He has written more than 30 books and 300 papers on mathematics, [[operations research]], and [[decision making]]. Their subjects include [[graph theory]] and its applications, [[nonlinearity|nonlinear mathematics]], analytical [[planning]], and [[game theory]] and [[conflict resolution]].
 Saaty has been elected to the [[National Academy of Engineering]] (2005), and the ''Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales'' (Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences, 1971). In 1973, he received the [[Lester R. Ford Award]] from the [[Mathematical Association of America]] for his work on the [[four color problem]], and in 2000 he was awarded the gold medal of the [[International Society on Multi-criteria Decision Making]]. He is the 2007 recipient of the [http://www.qfdi.org/who_is_qfdi/akao_prize.htm Akao Prize] of the [[Quality function deployment|QFD Institute]].