Simons Fellow in Theoretical Physics | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 18/02/2019

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00:01:19 1 Early life and education
00:02:14 2 Academic and scientific career
00:04:19 3 Investment career
00:04:29 3.1 Renaissance Technologies
00:06:21 4 Personal life
00:07:13 5 Political and economic views
00:08:29 6 Controversies
00:10:05 7 Wealth and philanthropy
00:14:09 8 Legacy and awards
00:14:41 9 Publications and works
00:17:18 10 See also



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James Harris Simons also known as Jim 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. Although Simons retired from the fund in 2009, he remains its non-executive chairman and adviser.He is also known for his studies on pattern recognition. He 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.As reported by Forbes, his net worth as of February 2019 is estimated to be $21.5 billion.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.