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Jacques Tits
Jacques Tits 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.
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science · Belgian mathematician (1930–2021) · mathematician · university teacher · professor · also Jacques Tits, Tits
Born 12 August 1930 · Died 5 December 2021 · Q451331
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2026· 9 entries
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Far Out Magazine: The “embarrassing” 2007 love scene Emily Blunt would rather forget: “It’s just you with your tits hanging out”
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The Guardian: ‘Topless modelling never aligned with me’: inside Everyone’s Seen My Tits, the play by a former page 3 model
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2021· 1 entry
Died 2021-12-05.
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2008· 2 entries
Awarded Abel Prize (2008).
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Was awarded the Abel Prize, along with John Griggs Thompson, "for their profound achievements in algebra and in particular for shaping modern group theory"
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2001· 1 entry
Awarded Officer of the National Order of Merit (2001).
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1996· 1 entry
Won Cantor medal (1996).
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1995· 1 entry
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1995).
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1993· 2 entries
Awarded Wolf Prize in Mathematics (1993).
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The Cantor Medal from the Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung (German Mathematical Society) in 1996, and the German distinction "Pour le Mérite"
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1979· 1 entry
Awarded Honorary doctors of Ghent University (1979).
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1976· 1 entry
Awarded Prix de l'Etat (1976).
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1974· 1 entry
In order to teach at the Collège de France, which at that point required French citizenship
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1950· 2 entries
With the dissertation Généralisation des groupes projectifs basés sur la notion de transitivité
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Studied at Université libre de Bruxelles (1950).
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1930· 1 entry
Born 1930-08-12.
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