MATHEMATICIAN

Jacques Tits

1930 - 2021

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Jacques Tits (French: [ʒak tits]) (12 August 1930 – 5 December 2021) was a Belgian-born French mathematician who worked on group theory and incidence geometry. He introduced Tits buildings, the Tits alternative, the Tits group, and the Tits metric. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jacques Tits is the 714th most popular mathematician (down from 698th in 2019), the 609th most popular biography from Belgium (down from 595th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Belgian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Jacques Tits ranks 714 out of 1,004. Before him are Federigo Enriques, Nikoloz Muskhelishvili, Axel Thue, Vladimir Levenshtein, Sofya Yanovskaya, and Hans Carl Friedrich von Mangoldt. After him are Alexander Ostrowski, Alexander Esenin-Volpin, Carl Neumann, Heinz Prüfer, Fritz Noether, and Eugene Dynkin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Jacques Tits ranks 376. Before him are Heinz Kubsch, Gladys West, Choe Thae-bok, Bobby Bland, Malcolm Fraser, and FM-2030. After him are Marco Pannella, Leonid Abalkin, Giorgio Ghezzi, Jean Guillou, William H. Dana, and Edward Woodward. Among people deceased in 2021, Jacques Tits ranks 349. Before him are Jiří Čadek, Jim Steinman, Kadir Topbaş, Susana Higuchi, Milkha Singh, and Pedro Casado. After him are Gustavo Peña, Fausta Morganti, Jeannette Altwegg, Ivan Toplak, Alexander Gradsky, and Willie Garson.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Jacques Tits ranks 609 out of 1,190. Before him are Simon Bening (1483), Maurice Hemelsoet (1875), Claude Criquielion (1957), Andrei Kozyrev (1951), Maurice Peeters (1882), and FM-2030 (1930). After him are Ludo Martens (1946), Gérard Cooreman (1852), Johan Museeuw (1965), Stijn Streuvels (1871), Louis Paul Boon (1912), and Matthias Schoenaerts (1977).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Belgium

Among mathematicians born in Belgium, Jacques Tits ranks 13. Before him are Pierre François Verhulst (1804), Ingrid Daubechies (1954), Grégoire de Saint-Vincent (1584), David Ruelle (1935), Jean Bourgain (1954), and Elias M. Stein (1931).

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