Mathematician:Jacques Tits

Mathematician
Belgian, then French mathematician who worked on group theory and incidence geometry.

Nationality
Belgian, then French

History

 * Born: 12 August 1930 in Uccle, Belgium
 * Died: 5 December 2021

Theorems and Definitions

 * Tits Alternative


 * Tits Building
 * Tits Group
 * Tits Metric
 * Tits Ovoid (also known as the Suzuki Ovoid, for )


 * Kantor-Koecher-Tits Construction (with and )
 * Kneser-Tits Conjecture (with )

Publications

 * 1964: Algebraic and abstract simple groups
 * 1974: Buildings of spherical type and finite BN-pairs

Also known as
Occasionally his name can be seen with a middle initial, for example: J.L. Tits.

The L. is not technically the initial of a "middle name", because Belgians (and French) do not have them.

However, they can have first names consisting of two words, or several first names as written on legal documents that are used nowhere else.

In the case of Jacques Tits, his other first name is Léon, after his father.