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Jim Simons

1938 - Today

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James Harris Simons (born 25 April 1938) is an American hedge fund manager, investor, mathematician, and philanthropist. He is the founder of Renaissance Technologies, a quantitative hedge fund based in East Setauket, New York. He and his fund are known to be quantitative investors, using mathematical models and algorithms to make investment gains from market inefficiencies. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jim Simons has received more than 23,412 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Jim Simons is the 368th most popular mathematician (up from 373rd in 2019), the 3,158th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,101st in 2019) and the 21st most popular American Mathematician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.76

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.90

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Jim Simons ranks 368 out of 823. Before him are John G. Kemeny, Marino Ghetaldi, Philippe de La Hire, Emil Leon Post, Al-Ḥajjāj ibn Yūsuf ibn Maṭar, and Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach. After him are David Cox, Yang Hui, Gemma Frisius, Raymond Smullyan, Zhu Shijie, and László Lovász.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Jim Simons ranks 187. Before him are Sergei Novikov, Götz George, Manuel Sanchís Martínez, James W. Christy, Daniel Buren, and Perry Anderson. After him are Yuri Temirkanov, Carmela Corren, Larry Niven, Lawrence Block, Adolf Scherer, and Jacqueline Andere.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jim Simons ranks 3,158 out of 18,182. Before him are Barbara Hendricks (1948), Richard Holbrooke (1941), Annie Potts (1952), Jeff Buckley (1966), Waylon Jennings (1937), and Zach Galifianakis (1969). After him are Roy J. Plunkett (1910), Patty Hearst (1954), Barry Goldwater (1909), Chris O'Donnell (1970), John Krasinski (1979), and James Hong (1929).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Jim Simons ranks 21. Before him are John Milnor (1931), Jesse Douglas (1897), Richard Hamming (1915), Stephen Smale (1930), Edward Kasner (1878), and John G. Thompson (1932). After him are Raymond Smullyan (1919), Julia Robinson (1919), Stephen Cole Kleene (1909), Richard E. Bellman (1920), Whitfield Diffie (1944), and Mitchell Feigenbaum (1944).

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