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 ...

(CNN) — Jim Simons, the billionaire investor, mathematician and philanthropist, died on Friday in New York City, according to his foundation, the Simons Foundation. Simons was 86 years old. Simons, ...

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James Harris Simons, the Stony Brook University mathematician who founded a successful hedge fund in East Setauket and then donated hundreds of millions of dollars to the university, died Friday ...