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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1440114
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1440114 |
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2 April 2001
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incidence geometry in 20th century
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buildings
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generalized polyhedron
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Coxeter-Dynkin diagrams
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projective geometry
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Lie groups
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regular polytopes
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The author relates the history of incidence geometry, focusing on the birth of the concept of buildings or generalized polyhedron and on the prehistory of that work along five intertwined guidelines which are Tits' work before 1955, the role of Coxeter-Dynkin diagrams, the role of projective geometry and incidence geometry as modelled after Hilbert and Veblen, the role of Lie groups, namely the legacy of Lie, Killing, E. Cartan and their followers, and finally, the role of regular polytopes after Schläfli and Coxeter. At the end of the paper, an almost complete list of publications of Jacques Tits for the period 1949-1962 is given. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0942.00019].
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