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Together with Francis Buekenhout and Jean-Pierre Tignol we have edited
the Collected Works of Jacques Tits, whose four volumes were
published in 2013 by the European Mathematical Society in the series Heritage
of European Mathematics. Not all of Tits' papers were included in the
Collected Works for reasons explained there in the
Notes by the editors.
During the preparation of the Collected Works we assembled an almost
complete collection of Tits' writings. In view of the huge impact of
Tits' work we felt it desirable to make the remaining works available
to the mathematical community. We thus decided to put the material
that was not included in the Collected Works in the present
special volume of Innovations in Incidence Geometry.
We are grateful to Jacques Tits for agreeing to this project. We had
the support of several people and institutions. We would like to thank
our co-editors Francis Buekenhout and Jean-Pierre Tignol since this
supplement profited a lot from the work that was done before, during
the preparation of the Collected Works. Special thanks go to
Bertrand Rémy and Jean-Pierre Serre. We are also grateful to Franz
Bingen, Pierre De la Harpe, Narasimha Sastry, Jef Thas, Guy Valette
and Stefan Witzel for supporting us in various ways. Anneleen De
Schepper and Beukje Temmermans did a great job helping prepare the
scans for publication. Finally we would like to thank the
Département des manuscrits et des archives privés de la
Bibliothèque de Genève, the Service de documentation de Lyon 1 and
the Réseau des bibliothèques de maths en France for their support.
March 2018
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