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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.
Jacques Tits (Uccle, 12 de agosto de 1930 – 5 de dezembro de 2021) foi um matemático belgo-francês. Trabalhou principalmente nas áreas da teoria dos grupos e geometria algébrica.
Jacques Tits, Belgian-born French mathematician who was awarded the 2008 Able Prize by the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters, which cited him for having ‘created a new and highly influential vision of groups as geometric objects.’ Learn more about Tits’s life and work.
Tits created a new and highly influential vision of groups as geometric objects. He introduced what is now known as a Tits building, which encodes in geometric terms the algebraic structure of linear groups.
Jacques Tits, editor-in-chief of the Publications mathématiques de l’IHES from 1979 to 1999, passed away on December 5, 2021, at the age of 91. After defending a thesis at the age of 20, he became a professor at the University of Brussels at the age of 24.
The Belgium-born French mathematician Jacques Tits, an honorary professor at Collège de France in Paris who transformed geometry in the twentieth century, died last month, aged 91.
The immense work of the mathematician Jacques Tits, who died on December 5 in Paris at the age of 91, profoundly transformed geometry in the 20th century. Born on August 12, 1930 in Uccle (Belgium), this child prodigy defended a doctorate in Brussels at the age of 20.
