Talk:Jacques Tits

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Pronunciation

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)[reply]

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

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

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).[reply]

i like his last name.

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)[reply]