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Jim Simons
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American mathematician and hedge fund manager (1938–2024)
OverviewAI-generated
Jim Simons (1938–2024) was an author and musician. As a writer, he produced three works, including *Adventures of Cannonball the Parrot*, *Intentional Travel*, and *A Dog in the Manger and Other Christmas Stories*. Crossref records list five works associated with him. In the music field, he was identified as a male person from the Netherlands, performing in the genres of dutch, levenslied, and the netherlands.
Simons had a net worth of 23500000000 and five children. He was recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection. His musical activity included 79 plays by 37 listeners on Last.fm.
Synthesized by Vinony from 19 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 3
Top works
- Adventures of Cannonball the Parrot
- Intentional Travel
- A Dog in the Manger and Other Christmas Stories
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Netherlands
- Active from
- 1955-08-12
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 37
- Total plays
- 79
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Jim+Simons">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Welcome to the Tidyverse
· 2019 · cited 20,494x
- The MIQE Guidelines: Minimum Information for Publication of Quantitative Real-Time PCR Experiments
· 2009 · cited 14,230x
- The Sequence of the Human Genome
· 2001 · cited 10,206x
- Functional rafts in cell membranes
· 1997 · cited 8,362x
- Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 6,817x
via Crossref · CC0
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
via Wikipedia infobox
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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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jim Simons” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.