Jim Simons (mathematician), Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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American hedge fund manager
Date of Birth: 25-Apr-1938
Place of Birth: Newton, Massachusetts, United States
Profession: businessperson, mathematician, university teacher, financier, cryptographer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Jim Simons (mathematician)
- James Harris Simons (; born April 25, 1938) is an American mathematician, billionaire hedge fund manager, and philanthropist.
- He is known as a quantitative investor and in 1982 founded Renaissance Technologies, a private hedge fund based in Setauket-East Setauket, New York.
- Due to the success of Renaissance in general and its Medallion Fund in particular, Simons has been described as the greatest investor on Wall Street.
- As reported by Forbes, his net worth as of October 2019 is estimated to be $21.6 billion, making Simons the 21st-richest man in the United States. Simons is known for his studies on pattern recognition.
- He also developed (with Shiing-Shen Chern) the Chern–Simons form, and contributed to the development of string theory by providing a theoretical framework to combine geometry and topology with quantum field theory.
- From 1968 to 1978, Simons was a mathematics professor and subsequent chair of the mathematics department at Stony Brook University.In 1994, Simons founded the Simons Foundation with his wife to support researches in mathematics and fundamental sciences.
- He is one of the biggest donors to the University of California, Berkeley's Mathematical Sciences Research Institute where he also serves as a member of Board of Trustees, and established the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at Berkeley in 2012.
- In 2016, asteroid 6618 Jimsimons, discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1936, was named after Simons by the International Astronomical Union in honor of his contributions to mathematics and philanthropy.
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