Mathematician:Jacques Tits
Mathematician
Belgian, then French mathematician who worked on group theory and incidence geometry.
Wolf Prize
Jacques Tits was awarded a Wolf Prize for Mathematics in $\text {1993}$:
- For his pioneering and fundamental contributions to the theory of the structure of algebraic and other classes of groups and in particular for the theory of buildings.
Abel Prize
Jacques Tits was awarded an Abel Prize with John Griggs Thompson in $\text {2008}$:
- For their profound achievements in algebra and in particular for shaping modern group theory.
Nationality
Belgian, then French
History
- Born: 12 August 1930 in Uccle, Belgium
- Died: 5 December 2021
Theorems and Definitions
- Tits Building
- Tits Group
- Tits Metric
- Tits Ovoid (also known as the Suzuki Ovoid, for Michio Suzuki)
- Kantor-Koecher-Tits Construction (with Isaiah Kantor and Max Koecher)
- Kneser-Tits Conjecture (with Martin Kneser)
Results named for Jacques Tits can be found here.
Definitions of concepts named for Jacques Tits can be found here.
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.