Thursday, 16 February 2012

James Simons



Dr. James H. Simons recently retired as President of Renaissance Technologies LLC, a private investment firm dedicated to the use of mathematical methods. Renaissance presently has roughly $20 billion under management. Previously he was chairman of the Mathematics Department at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Earlier in his career he was a cryptanalyst at the Institute of Defense Analyses in Princeton, and taught mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University.

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