Jacques Tits

Belgian mathematician (1930–2021)

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Liesche Gruppen und Algebren
Résumés des cours au Collège de France, 1973-2000
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Evariste Galois, son œuvre, sa vie, ses rapports avec l'Académie
Tabellen zu den einfachen Lie Gruppen und ihren Darstellungen

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Global Cancer Statistics 2020: GLOBOCAN Estimates of Incidence and Mortality Worldwide for 36 Cancers in 185 Countries
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Global cancer statistics 2018: GLOBOCAN estimates of incidence and mortality worldwide for 36 cancers in 185 countries
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Global cancer statistics
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Cancer incidence and mortality worldwide: Sources, methods and major patterns in GLOBOCAN 2012
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Global cancer statistics, 2012
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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)
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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date of birth: 1930-08-12
Commons category: Jacques Tits
Erdős number: 4
name in native language: Jacques Tits
date of death: 2021-12-05
birth name: Jacques Léon Tits
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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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