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Jacques Tits

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Belgian mathematician (1930–2021)

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Jacques Tits was a mathematician, university teacher and professor, born on 12 August 1930 in Uccle, holding French and Belgian citizenship. He worked in group theory, geometry and mathematics, studied at the Université libre de Bruxelles, and held positions at the University of Bonn, the Collège de France and the Free University of Brussels, working in Bonn, Paris and Brussels. His doctoral student was Jens Carsten Jantzen.

He was a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the French Academy of Sciences, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and the National Academy of Sciences, and his notable work includes the Tits building, the Tits alternative and the Tits group. He received the Abel Prize, the Wolf Prize in Mathematics, the Cantor medal and the Knight of the Legion of Honour. He died on 5 December 2021 in the 13th arrondissement of Paris.

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Key facts

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)
Education
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)
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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Instance of
human
Given name
Jacques
Gender
male
Citizenship
Belgium
Place of birth
Uccle
Place of death
13th arrondissement of Paris
Occupation
mathematician
Employer
Free University of Brussels
Languages spoken
English language
Native language
French
Award
Wolf Prize in Mathematics
Notable work
Tits building
Field of work
mathematics
Image
Jacques Tits (2008) (cropped).jpg
Work location
Brussels
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date of birth
1930-08-12
Commons category
Jacques Tits
member of
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Erdős number
4
name in native language
Jacques Tits
date of death
2021-12-05
birth name
Jacques Léon Tits
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WikiProject Mathematics
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David B. Hill
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Encyclopedic overview

Jacques Tits ( French: [ʒak 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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