Jacques Tits was a Belgian-born French mathematician who worked on group theory and incidence geometry. He was born in Uccle, Belgium, attended the Free University of Brussels and graduated with his doctorate in 1950 under Paul Libois. He introduced Tits buildings, the Tits alternative, the Tits group and the Tits metric. He held professorships at the Free University of Brussels, at the University of Bonn and at the Collège de France in Paris, and he was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
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was a Belgian-born French mathematician who worked on group theory and incidence geometry
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He introduced Tits buildings, the Tits alternative, the Tits group, and the Tits metric.
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was a Belgian-born French mathematician
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was a Belgian-born French mathematician who worked on group theory and incidence geometry
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Tits held professorships at the Free University of Brussels
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the University of Bonn
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who worked on group theory and incidence geometry
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