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 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 ...

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James Harris Simons was born in Newton, Massachusetts. He showed an affinity for math and numbers early on and went on to earn an undergraduate degree in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute ...