Talk:Jacques Tits

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[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Last Name

It would be useful to have the IPA for 'Tits'. I'm guessing it's /ti/. Can you confirm this?

No, in English it's like 'teets'; it's Flemish. Charles Matthews 06:09, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the quick response. Buster79 11:10, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

I don't think Tits is Flemish, nor is his name Flemish?Evilbu 18:22, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

I am Flemish myself and must admit that I really don't know how one should pronouce this name (If you do it pruerly phonetically, it would sound exactly like you-know-which-parts of the female anatomy. But this is only if the name is indeed Flemish ...). I am actually surprised he is even Belgian. By the way, why does the bottom of the page say he is a French mathematician? (Wolfgang Alexander Moens) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 131.130.16.93 (talk) 15:03, 7 May 2007 (UTC).

He actually is French (since 1974), though he was born Belgian. Se his biography at the Abel prize site (link at the bottom of the main page). I added a comment to this effect, though probably not in the best place. Someone should rework and expand on this biography; I don't feel quite qualified for that kind of work myself. Hanche (talk) 15:17, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Belgium does not grant double nationalities. Tits became French in order to be professor at Collège de France (now, French citizenship is no more mandatory but it was then) and lost (some years later, when Belgian administration became aware of his new citizenship) his native citizenship. He deserves without a doubt both "French mathematician" and "Belgian mathematician" taggings, but strictly speaking is he no more Belgian. In French, his name is pronounced /tits/. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.77.141.2 (talk) 07:09, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

i like his last name.

[edit] Bourbaki

Tits wrote the Bourbaki volume Groupes et alg`ebres de Lie. Some of the results attributed to him in the article may have been contained in that. The work had a pioneering influence on the study of Coxeter groups. --172.203.249.57 23:50, 27 March 2007 (UTC)