Jacques Tits
Belgian mathematician (1930–2021) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Jacques Tits (French: [tits]) (12 August 1930 – 5 December 2021) was a Belgian-born French mathematician who worked on group theory and incidence geometry. He introduced Tits buildings, the Tits alternative, the Tits group, and the Tits metric.
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Jacques Tits | |
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Born | (1930-08-12)12 August 1930 Uccle, Belgium |
Died | 5 December 2021(2021-12-05) (aged 91) 13th arrondissement, Paris, France |
Citizenship | Belgian (1930–1974) French (since 1974) |
Alma mater | Free University of Brussels |
Known for | Tits alternative Tits building Tits cone Tits group Tits index Tits metric Tits systems Bruhat–Tits fixed point theorem Freudenthal–Tits magic square Kantor–Koecher–Tits construction Artin-Tits group Kneser–Tits conjecture Field with one element Generalized polygon |
Awards | Francois Deruyts Prize (1962) Wolf Prize (1993) Pour le Mérite (1995) Cantor medal (1996) Abel Prize (2008) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | Free University of Brussels Vrije Universiteit Brussel University of Bonn Collège de France French Academy of Sciences |
Thesis | Généralisation des groupes projectifs basés sur la notion de transitivité (1950) |
Doctoral advisor | Paul Libois |
Doctoral students | Francis Buekenhout Jens Carsten Jantzen Karl-Otto Stöhr |
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