Jacques Tits | |
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Born | Uccle, Belgium | 12 August 1930
Died | 5 December 2021 | (aged 91)
Citizenship | Belgian (1930–1974) French (since 1974) |
Known for | The Tits group, the Tits alternative, Tits buildings |
Awards | Cantor medal (1996) Abel Prize (2008, with John G. Thompson) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | Free University of Brussels Vrije Universiteit Brussel University of Bonn Collège de France French Academy of Sciences |
Doctoral advisor | Paul Libois |
Doctoral students | Francis Buekenhout Jens Carsten Jantzen Karl-Otto Stöhr |
Jacques Tits (French: [tits]; 12 August 1930 – 5 December 2021) was a Belgium-born French mathematician. He worked on group theory and incidence geometry. He introduced Tits buildings, the Tits alternative, and the Tits group.
In 2008 he was awarded the Abel Prize, along with John Griggs Thompson, “for their profound achievements in algebra and in particular for shaping modern group theory.”[1]
Tits died on 5 December 2021 at the age of 91.[2]