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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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- 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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