Jacques Tits Scientist

Jacques Tits (French: [tits]; born 12 August 1930 in Uccle) is a Belgium-born French mathematician who works on group theory and geometry and who introduced Tits buildings, the Tits alternative, and the Tits group.

Personal facts

Jacques Tits
Birth dateAugust 12, 1930
Birth place
Uccle
Known for
Building (mathematics)
Tits group
Tits alternative

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Scientist

awards
John G. Thompson
doctoral advisor
Paul Libois
doctoral student
Jens Carsten Jantzen
Francis Buekenhout
Jean-Pierre Tignol
Karl-Otto St%C3%B6hr
Field of study
Mathematics

Jacques Tits on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://www.abelprize.no/c53860/binfil/download.php?tid=53791