1. Jacques Tits introduced Tits buildings, the Tits alternative, the Tits group, and the Tits metric.
11 Facts About Jacques Tits
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Jacques Tits was born in Uccle, Belgium to Leon Jacques Tits, a professor, and Lousia Andre.
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Jacques Tits attended the Athenee of Uccle and the Free University of Brussels.
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Jacques Tits held professorships at the Free University of Brussels, the University of Bonn and the College de France in Paris, until becoming emeritus in 2000.
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Jacques Tits changed his citizenship to French in 1974 in order to teach at the College de France, which at that point required French citizenship.
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Jacques Tits died on 5 December 2021, at the age of 91 in the 13th arrondissement, Paris.
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Jacques Tits received the Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 1993, the Cantor Medal from the Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung in 1996, and the German distinction "Pour le Merite".
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Jacques Tits became a member of the French Academy of Sciences in 1979.
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Jacques Tits was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
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Jacques Tits became a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1988.
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Jacques Tits introduced the theory of buildings, which are combinatorial structures on which groups act, particularly in algebraic group theory.