In brief
James Simons taught geometry, broke codes, and then hired scientists to find signal in prices. Renaissance, run from Long Island, treated markets as a data problem rather than a story.
James Harris Simons was born on April 25, 1938, to an American Jewish family, the only child of Marcia (née Kantor) and Matthew Simons, and raised in Brookline, Massachusetts.
The returns made him a billionaire; the Simons Foundation made him a patron of math and basic science. Few careers have joined the chalkboard and the ticker so completely.
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