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- Jim Simons founded quantitative trading hedge fund Renaissance Technologies. He died in May 2024 at age 86.
- A mathematics Ph.D., Simons worked as a codebreaker during the Vietnam War and chaired the math department at Stony Brook University in the 1960s and 70s.
- He founded Renaissance Technologies in 1982 and grew it into a hedge fund giant, famous for its Medallion Fund.
- Simons retired from Renaissance in 2010, but remained an investor in its funds.
- He gave some $6 billion to philanthropic causes over his life, alongside his wife Marilyn, including being the primary funder of Math For America.
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- Hedge funds, Self Made
- Citizenship
- United States
- Children
- 3
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts/Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Doctorate, University of California, Berkeley
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Simons' mathematical breakthroughs are considered instrumental to fields such as string theory, topology and condensed matter physics.
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