Jacques Benders

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Jacobus Franciscus "Jacques" Benders (born June 1, 1924 in Swalmen ; † January 9, 2017 in Eindhoven ) was a Dutch mathematician who dealt with mathematical optimization . He was a professor at the Technical University of Eindhoven .

Benders worked as a statistician since the 1940s and from 1955 for Shell (Shell Labor KSLA in North Amsterdam) in the optimization of the logistics of refineries. In 1960 he received his doctorate from the University of Utrecht under Hans Freudenthal with a thesis on mathematical optimization (Partitioning in Mathematical Programming). In his dissertation he published his method (Benders decomposition) for solving large linear programming tasks with a special block structure. First he presented his method at the 8th International Meeting of the Institute of Management Science in Brussels in 1961. In 1963 he became Professor of Operations Research at the TU Eindhoven, on the first such chair in the Netherlands. The Association of European Operational Research Societies awarded Benders the EURO Gold Medal in 2009 for his work.

Fonts

  • Partitioning procedures for solving mixed-variables programming problems , Numerische Mathematik, Volume 4, 1962, pp. 238-252 (Benders decomposition)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ online-familieberichten.nl , accessed on April 12, 2017
  2. ↑ Jacques Benders in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
  3. ^ JF Benders: Partitioning procedures for solving mixed-variables programming problems. University of Technology Eindhoven, accessed June 22, 2018 .
  4. ↑ EURO Gold Medal Laureates. European Association for Operations Research Societies, accessed on June 22, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Benders, Jacques
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Benders, Jacobus Franciscus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Swalms
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 2017
Place of death Eindhoven