Jim Simons
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James Harris Simons was an American hedge fund manager, investor, mathematician, and philanthropist. At the time of his death, Simons's net worth was estimated to be $31.4 billion, making him the 55th
Simons in 2007
James Simons 2007
Simons in 2007
Shiing-Shen Chern
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Shiing-Shen Chern was a Chinese-born American mathematician. He made fundamental contributions to differential geometry and topology. He has been called the "father of modern differential geometry" an
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…investor on Wall Street" and more specifically "the most successful hedge fund manager of all time". Simons developed the Chern–Simons form (with Shiing-Shen Chern), and contributed to the development of string theory by providing a theoretical framework to combine geometry and topology with quantum field theory…
Chern in 1988
Tombstone of Chern and his wife at Nankai University
The Shiing-Shen Building (省身楼) in Nankai University, in which the Chern Institute of Mathematics is located