Jacques Tits
Belgian-French mathematician
Jacques Tits 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. Wikipedia
Born: August 12, 1930, Uccle, Belgium
Died: December 5, 2021 (age 91 years), 13th arrondissement, Paris, France
Notable students: Francis Buekenhout, Jean-Pierre Tignol, Karl-Otto Stöhr, and more
Awards: Francois Deruyts Prize (1962), Wolf Prize in Mathematics (1993), Cantor medal (1996), and more
Partner: Marie-Jeanne Tits-Dieuaide
Alma mater: Free University of Brussels
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