Simons, James Harris

LC control no.	no2017167908
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Simons, James Harris *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Simons, Jim (James Harris)
Biography/History note	James Harris "Jim" Simons (born April 1938) is an American mathematician, hedge fund manager, and philanthropist. He is known as a quantitative investor and in 1982 founded Renaissance Technologies, a private hedge fund based in New York City. Although Simons retired from the fund in 2009, he remains its non-executive chairman and adviser. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Harris_Simons>
Associated country	United States
Place of birth	Newton (Mass.)
Affiliation	University of California, Berkeley
Profession or occupation	Mathematicians
Found in	On the transitivity of holonomy systems, 1962: title page (James Harris Simons) Wikipedia, December 27, 2017 (name: James Harris Simons; birth place: Newton, Massachusetts, U.S.; alma mater: Massachusetts Institute of Technology; University of California, Berkeley; occupation: Mathematician, hedge fund manager, and philanthropist; net worth: US$18 billion (February 2017); spouse: Barbara Simons; Marilyn Hawrys Simons; children: 3, {{cite news, url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/marketsmag/mm_0108_story1.html, title=The Code Breaker, last=Teitelbaum, first=Richard, date=January 2008, work=Bloomberg Markets Magazine, publisher=Bloomberg LP, accessdate=January 7, 2010}} including Nat Simons; parents: Matthew Simons; Marcia Kantor; awards: Oswald Veblen Prize (1976) {{cite web, url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/08/science/a-billionaire-mathematicians-life-of-ferocious-curiosity.html?_r=0, title=A Billionaire Mathematician's Life of Ferocious Curiosity, website=The New York Times, accessdate=November 11, 2017}}; known for: *Founding and managing Renaissance Technologies) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Harris_Simons> The man who solved the market, 2019: t.p. (Jim Simons)
Associated language	eng