Benders is a household name in optimization, but as a person he was hardly known beyond his circle of colleagues and students. In this brief paper, we review his life and work.

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doi.org/10.1016/j.orl.2025.107361
Operations Research Letters
Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Amsterdam (CWI), The Netherlands

Aardal, K., Hurkens, C., & Lenstra, J. K. (2025). Jacques Benders and his decomposition algorithm. Operations Research Letters, 63. doi:10.1016/j.orl.2025.107361