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.

Elite University philanthropy, a field of giving that garners much attention in its own right, often portrays massive donations from academics as nothing but a contest of legacy branding and ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of Jim Simons’ favorite places was the front row of the Simons Foundation’s Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium. Sitting in his customary seat, he would listen as some of the world’s leading thinkers ...

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 ...

FILE - Jim Simons, a businessman and founder of Math for America, poses at his New York office, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2005. Simons, a renowned mathematician and pioneering investor who built a fortune ...