Jim Simons, the legendary "Quant King" who founded Renaissance Technologies, died Friday at the age of 86, after forever changing Wall Street with his genius for math and finding patterns in data.
JIM SIMONS, a prizewinning mathematician who abandoned a stellar academic career, then plunged into finance – a world he knew nothing about – and became one of the most successful Wall Street ...
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. The ...