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Jim Simons
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American mathematician and hedge fund manager (1938–2024)
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1938-04-25 ) April 25, 1938, Cambridge, Massachusetts , U.S.
- Died
- May 10, 2024 (2024-05-10) (aged 86), New York City , U.S.
- Education
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( BS ), University of California, Berkeley ( PhD )
- Occupations
- Hedge fund manager, investor, mathematician, philanthropist
- Known for
- Founding and managing Renaissance Technologies , Simons formula , Chern–Simons form , Simons cone
- Spouses
- Barbara Bluestein ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1959 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1974 ) Marilyn Hawrys ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1977 )
- Children
- 5, including Nat
- Awards
- Oswald Veblen Prize (1976)
- Fields
- Differential geometry , cryptography , quantitative financial analysis
- Thesis
- On the transitivity of holonomy systems (1962)
- Doctoral advisor
- Bertram Kostant
- Doctoral students
- Jeff Cheeger
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- James
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Newton
- Place of death
- New York City
- Occupation
- philanthropist
- Educated at
- University of California, Berkeley
- Employer
- Harvard University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- Chern–Simons form
- Doctoral advisor
- Bertram Kostant
- Image
- Jim Simons at MSRI.jpg
- Number of children
- 5
- Significant event
- Paradise Papers
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- date of birth
- 1938-04-25
- Commons category
- James Harris Simons
- relative
- Richard Lourie
- net worth
- 23500000000
- name in native language
- James Harris Simons
- ethnic group
- Jewish people
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- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- date of death
- 2024-05-10
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Encyclopedic overview
James Harris Simons (April 25, 1938 – May 10, 2024) was an American hedge fund manager, investor, mathematician, and philanthropist. At the time of his death, Simons's net worth was estimated to be $31.4 billion, making him the 55th-richest person in the world. He was the founder of Renaissance Technologies, a quantitative hedge fund based in East Setauket, New York. He and his fund are known to be quantitative investors, using mathematical models and algorithms to make investment gains from market inefficiencies. Due to the long-term aggregate investment returns of Renaissance and its Medallion Fund, Simons was called the "greatest investor on Wall Street" and more specifically "the most successful hedge fund manager of all time".
Simons developed the Chern–Simons form (with Shiing-Shen Chern), and contributed to the development of string theory by providing a theoretical framework to combine geometry and topology with quantum field theory.
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