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MATHEMATICIAN

Jacques Tits

1930 - 2021

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Jacques Tits (French: [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 321,204 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Jacques Tits is the 393rd most popular mathematician (up from 672nd in 2019), the 339th most popular biography from Belgium (up from 564th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Belgian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Jacques Tits ranks 393 out of 823Before him are Guido Fubini, Nikolai Luzin, Rolf Nevanlinna, Pierre Wantzel, Albert Girard, and Abū Ja'far al-Khāzin. After him are Alfred J. Lotka, Ignazio Danti, Henri Brocard, Ibn Sahl, Qin Jiushao, and Caspar Wessel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Jacques Tits ranks 201Before him are FM-2030, Uladzimir Karatkievich, Gregory Corso, Veljo Tormis, Lazar Berman, and Hussain Muhammad Ershad. After him are Ahmad Shah of Pahang, Frederick Wiseman, Juan Gelman, Ross Perot, María Elena Walsh, and Lawrence Eagleburger. Among people deceased in 2021, Jacques Tits ranks 248Before him are Captain Tom, Ioannis Palaiokrassas, Nicholas Cheong Jin-suk, Lawrence Weiner, Leonid Bartenyev, and Willie Garson. After him are Jessica Walter, Giacomo Capuzzi, Umberto Colombo, Carla Fracci, Bell hooks, and El Risitas.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Jacques Tits ranks 339 out of 1,019Before him are Prince Laurent of Belgium (1963), Stradanus (1523), FM-2030 (1930), Wim Mertens (1953), Hélène Dutrieu (1877), and Sigebert of Gembloux (1030). After him are François de Cuvilliés (1695), René Jacobs (1946), Perkin Warbeck (1474), Dirk II, Count of Holland (901), Abraham Janssens (1570), and Sylvère Maes (1909).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Belgium

Among mathematicians born in Belgium, Jacques Tits ranks 5Before him are Simon Stevin (1548), Victor D'Hondt (1841), Eugène Charles Catalan (1814), and Pierre Deligne (1944). After him are Adriaan van Roomen (1561), Pierre François Verhulst (1804), Grégoire de Saint-Vincent (1584), Charles Jean de la Vallée Poussin (1866), David Ruelle (1935), Elias M. Stein (1931), and Jean Bourgain (1954).