DECEASED MATHEMATICIAN OF THE WEEK SO FAR
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I took a course in algebraic group theory when I was an undergraduate. I never realized it was so titillating.
Posted by: Static Joeage | December 08, 2021 at 09:09 AM
Thanks for keeping us abreast of his passing.
Posted by: Dee Cupz | December 08, 2021 at 09:12 AM
The world grieves.
Posted by: Lucky Jack | December 08, 2021 at 09:28 AM
I don't think so...(poof!)
Posted by: Renee D. | December 08, 2021 at 09:50 AM
If his middle name is Hoff, I think his biography is available on pornhub.
Posted by: Via Grabonner | December 08, 2021 at 09:56 AM
...survived by his wife, Freda Tits.
Posted by: Jim | December 08, 2021 at 10:29 AM
If you graph his best-known function, you get a double curve with a spike at the top of each.
Posted by: Rod Nunley | December 08, 2021 at 10:36 AM
The mathematician was also a lover of hockey and left a huge endowment to his favorite team, The Tatsworthy Bombers. It was Tits for Tats
Posted by: Le Petomane | December 08, 2021 at 10:48 AM
Sadly, he could no longer even add or subtract due to dementia.
His mammary had started to go.
Posted by: Felunda Areola | December 08, 2021 at 11:10 AM
Cross your heart (lifts and separates!)
Posted by: Jane 'Playtex' Russell | December 08, 2021 at 11:14 AM
I can't come to grips of this sad news.
He so loved working with big figures.
Posted by: Hannah Fulo-Boobees | December 08, 2021 at 11:30 AM
I'm told the phrase "Show us your Tits" originated at Oxford, where advanced math students would go to the chalkboard to demonstrate their solutions to problems featuring his techniques.
Posted by: ripleysparrow | December 08, 2021 at 12:09 PM
It's a sag day in the mathematics world. Mr. Tits had a global influence even busting over into the entertainment industry. Dolly Parton has lowered her bra to half staff in his honor.
Posted by: The Ghost of Nipsey Russell | December 08, 2021 at 12:36 PM
When it comes to working with Tits, this says it all:
...(from the Wiki)Let {\displaystyle G}G be a finitely generated linear group over a field. Then two following possibilities occur:
either {\displaystyle G}G is virtually solvable (i.e. has a solvable subgroup of finite index)
or it contains a nonabelian free group (i.e. it has a subgroup isomorphic to the free group on two generators). Or put more succinctly, this is why men have such a difficult time with bra clasps..
Posted by: LSMFT | December 08, 2021 at 12:47 PM
@LSMFT
Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco.
Haven't heard that in awhile.
Are you insinuating that Mr. Titts liked smokin' big knockers?
Posted by: Chester Fields | December 08, 2021 at 01:21 PM
Nice line—“His tendency to name things after himself suggests he knew his own power…”
Oh the power of Tits!!
Posted by: CB | December 08, 2021 at 01:26 PM
CFields: aka: Loose Straps Mean Floppy Tits
Posted by: Tip Arellos | December 08, 2021 at 01:52 PM
Wasn't Tina Turner the front for The Tits Alternative before she...busted out on her own?
Posted by: man tom | December 08, 2021 at 02:28 PM
In higher education he was honored by the Tasmania, Texas, and Tennessee Institute of Technology.
Posted by: The Squirrel Whispherer | December 08, 2021 at 03:35 PM
The headline writer certainly had a fun time.
Posted by: OldPhil | December 08, 2021 at 04:37 PM
So Mr. T. went Tango Uniform, as they say in the Navy?
Posted by: PirateBoy, Saluting | December 08, 2021 at 05:39 PM
To honor their native son mathematics wizard, the Belgian government is commissioning a bust of Mr. Tit to be displayed at the entrance of the local Brussels Hooters.
Posted by: Tits - A Wonderful Life Commemorative Committee | December 08, 2021 at 09:24 PM
Regarding the power of Tits, one of my fav scenes from 3rdrockfromthesun is when Sally Solomon cups her breasts and pressing them against each other comments: "Do3s this seem to make them even more powerful, to you?"
Posted by: Fan Boy | December 09, 2021 at 07:44 AM