Awards & Winners

Jacques Tits

Date of Birth 12-August-1930
Place of Birth Uccle
(Belgium)
Nationality France
Profession Mathematician
Jacques Tits is a Belgian and French mathematician who works on group theory and geometry and who introduced Tits buildings, the Tits alternative, and the Tits group.

Awards by Jacques Tits

Check all the awards nominated and won by Jacques Tits.

2008


Abel Prize
(For their profound achievements in algebra and in particular for shaping modern group theory.)

1993


Wolf Prize in Mathematics
(For his pioneering and fundamental contributions to the theory of the structure of algebraic and other classes of groups and in particular for the theory of buildings.)