Jacques Tits

Jacques Tits (French: [tits]; 12 August 1930 – 5 December 2021) was a Belgium-born French mathematician. He worked on group theory and incidence geometry. He introduced Tits buildings, the Tits alternative, and the Tits group.

Jacques Tits
Jacques Tits in May 2008
Born	(1930-08-12)12 August 1930 Uccle, Belgium
Died	5 December 2021(2021-12-05) (aged 91) France
Citizenship	Belgian (1930–1974) French (since 1974)
Known for	The Tits group, the Tits alternative, Tits buildings
Awards	Cantor medal (1996) Abel Prize (2008, with John G. Thompson)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Free University of Brussels Vrije Universiteit Brussel University of Bonn Collège de France French Academy of Sciences
Doctoral advisor	Paul Libois
Doctoral students	Francis Buekenhout Jens Carsten Jantzen Karl-Otto Stöhr

In 1988 he was elected a member of the Academia Europaea.^[1]

In 2008 he was awarded the Abel Prize, along with John Griggs Thompson, “for their profound achievements in algebra and in particular for shaping modern group theory.”^[2]

Tits died on 5 December 2021 at the age of 91.^[3]