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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/chaldea_fgo on 2024-10-07 15:13:39+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about Jacques Tits, a French Mathematician who worked in group theory and incidence geometry, and is famous introducing the Tits buildings, the Tits alternative, the Tits group, and the Tits metric in mathematics.