# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jacques-tits
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:17:46.129Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/jacques-tits"
name: "Jacques Tits"
slug: "jacques-tits"
description: "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."
tagline: "Belgian mathematician (1930–2021)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "FR"
category:
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birthDate: "1930-08-12"
deathDate: "2021-12-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
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