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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacques Tits has received more than 346,277 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Jacques Tits is the 698th most popular mathematician (down from 392nd in 2019), the 595th most popular biography from Belgium (down from 339th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Belgian Mathematician.

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  • 3.77

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  • 3.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Jacques Tits ranks 698 out of 1,004. Before him are Jürgen Moser, Heinz Hopf, Jean-Christophe Yoccoz, Lewis Fry Richardson, Eduard Čech, and Lady Byron. After him are Abu Said Gorgani, Marc-Antoine Parseval, Dmitry Grave, Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Joseph Bélanger, Ennio de Giorgi, and Helena Rasiowa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Jacques Tits ranks 355. Before him are Frédéric Etsou-Nzabi-Bamungwabi, Stephen Fumio Hamao, Owen Garriott, Chris Barber, Anthony Downs, and Tommy Flanagan. After him are Donald Moffat, Luis de Pablo, Darío Jara Saguier, Magomedali Magomedov, Theodore Freeman, and Richard Anuszkiewicz. Among people deceased in 2021, Jacques Tits ranks 349. Before him are Håkon Brusveen, Joël Robert, Sebastian Koto Khoarai, Mari Törőcsik, Jüri Tamm, and Rildo da Costa Menezes. After him are Vladimir Korenev, Gustavo Peña, Luis de Pablo, Carlyle Glean, Milan Bandić, and Tamara Rylova.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Jacques Tits ranks 595 out of 1,190. Before him are Luc Nilis (1967), Edward Van Dijck (1918), André Noyelle (1931), Joël Robert (1943), Prosper Poullet (1868), and Germain Derycke (1929). After him are Daniel Seghers (1590), Léopold Anoul (1922), Félicien Marceau (1913), Jules Renkin (1862), Rik Wouters (1882), and Willem Elsschot (1882).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Belgium

Among mathematicians born in Belgium, Jacques Tits ranks 13. Before him are Charles Jean de la Vallée Poussin (1866), David Ruelle (1935), Jean Bourgain (1954), Elias M. Stein (1931), Ingrid Daubechies (1954), and Grégoire de Saint-Vincent (1584).

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