James H. Simons and his wife Marilyn H. Simons, graduates of Stony Brook University, on June 1 gifted the New York college with a $500 million donation over seven years from The Simons Foundation. A ...

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 ...

A New York Times profile details the unusual career and expansive, science-based giving of mathematician, financier, and philanthropist James H. Simons. Mr. Simons, a former National Security Agency ...

As it studies cosmic microwaves, the Simons Observatory in Chile aims to help prove or disprove cosmic inflation, a notion that the universe expanded rapidly in the moment after the Big Bang. By ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. James “Jim” Simons, a renowned mathematician ...