scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1440114

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Authors Francis Buekenhout

Publication date 2 April 2001

zbMATH Keywords

buildingsCoxeter-Dynkin diagramsgeneralized polyhedronincidence geometry in 20th centuryLie groupsprojective geometryregular polytopes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Development of contemporary mathematics (01A65) History of geometry (51-03) Buildings and the geometry of diagrams (51E24)

Review text

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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