Jaques Tits, the mathematician behind Tits buildings, the Tits alternative, the Tits group, and the Tits metric, has died at 91

This ad. I can’t stop laughing. Way to go, algorithm!

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Well he’s up there in Math Heaven keeping abreast of things.

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I see there’s an overlap of readership here and El Reg.

At least I don’t have to make any crude jokes as other’s have do so already.

:smiley:

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I guarantee you they don’t teach this math in high school. Anywhere. No matter how advanced the class. It simply can’t be done.

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Le tits now!!!

Not a big time math person. I looked up the link to Tits Building and this:

In mathematics, a building (also Tits building , named after Jacques Tits) is a combinatorial and geometric structure which simultaneously generalizes certain aspects of flag manifolds, finite projective planes, and Riemannian symmetric spaces. Buildings were initially introduced by Jacques Tits as a means to understand the structure of exceptional groups of Lie type. The more specialized theory of Bruhat–Tits buildings (named also after François Bruhat) plays a role in the study of p-adic Lie groups analogous to that of the theory of symmetric spaces in the theory of Lie groups.

Sounds in my brain like Leslie Claret (Kurtwood Smith) in “The Patriot.”

There is a whole podcast spinoff of the fictional character reading his book, “The Structural Dynamics of Flow.”

Not just “tits” but (French accent) “Jock Tits” :roll_eyes:

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Exactly this. The Hopf Fibration. The Zariski Topology. The Killing Vector. The Banach Space.

So many, many more, a significant number of which are what anyone would take to be the obvious example of the structure being thus christened.

All great movie titles of course.

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