Jim Simons, the billionaire investor, mathematician and philanthropist, died on Friday in New York City, according to his ...

Jim Simons, a prizewinning mathematician who abandoned a stellar academic career, then plunged into finance – a world he knew ...

Known as the “quant king”, Simons was a pioneer of quantitative investing, which uses large amounts of market data and ...

Simons, a prolific philanthropist who has given away hundreds of millions of dollars to Stony Brook University, died in New ...

Jim Simons, the mathematician-investor who created what many in finance consider the world’s greatest moneymaking machine at ...

Jim Simons, the billionaire mathematician-investor who founded quantitative hedge fund Renaissance Technologies more than ...

The investment community grieved on Friday when it was announced renowned mathematician and investor Jim Simons (Trades, Portfolio), the head of quantitative hedge fund Renaissance Technologies, had ...

A mathematician, he helped usher in a revolution in trading, embracing a computer-oriented, quantitative style in the 1980s.

Billionaire mathematician Jim Simons, who pioneered quantitative trading, died Friday in New York City. He was at 86.

James “Jim” Simons, a renowned mathematician who built a fortune on Wall Street and then became one of the nation’s biggest philanthropists, died May 10 at his home in Manhattan. He was 86.

Jim Simons, a mathematician-investor who created the world's greatest moneymaking machine at Renaissance Technologies, has ...