James “Jim” Simons, a renowned mathematician and pioneering investor who built a fortune on Wall Street and then became one of the nation's biggest philanthropists, has died at age 86. The charitable ...

James Simons, the mathematician, hedge fund founder and philanthropist, died at 86, on Friday, May 10. The former chair of the Department of Mathematics at Stony Brook University, Simons went on to ...

FILE - Jim Simons, a businessman and founder of Math for America, poses at his New York office, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2005. Simons, a renowned mathematician and pioneering investor who built a fortune ...

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