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