Jim Simons is the Founder of Renaissance Technologies. He established the quantitative investment firm in 1982 and served as its Chairman and CEO until he retired in 2010. Today, he remains as a Non-Executive Chairman at Renaissance. Simons is also a notable mathematician whose most influential research involves the discovery and application of certain geometric measurements—called the Chern-Simons Invariants—which have wide use, particularly in theoretical physics. As of 2021, Forbes estimated Simons' net worth at $23.5 billion, making him the 23rd richest person in the United States.
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