Jim Simons
A comprehensive compilation of Jim Simons's writings, articles, interviews, and talks.
BooksJanuary 2012Differential Characters for K-theoryPresentationsMay 2007Enriching Cohomology With A Ring Of Differential Characters (Jim Simons, MSRI workshop talk)December 2010Mathematics, Common Sense, and Good Luck: My Life and CareersDecember 2010Jim Simons Talks About Renaissance Technologies at MIT, 9 December 20102014My Life in MathematicsOctober 2014James H. Simons: Mathematics, Common Sense and Good Luck (AMS Einstein Public Lecture in Mathematics)2015My Peregrinations through MathematicsDecember 2017Jim Simons speech on Leonard E. BaumMarch 2019Jim Simons Speaks on Chern-Simons Theory2022Jim Simons: A Short Story of My Life and Mathematics (2022)Articles1962On the transitivity of holonomy systems1967Minimal Cones, Plateau's Problem, and the Bernstein Conjecture1967A Note on Minimal VarietiesNovember 1967Jim Simons — Letter to the Editor (anti-Vietnam War letter responding to Gen. Maxwell Taylor)1968Minimal Varieties in Riemannian Manifolds1971Some Cohomology Classes in Principal Fiber Bundles and Their Application to Riemannian Geometry1973On stable currents and their application to global problems in real and complex geometry1974Characteristic Forms and Geometric Invariants1979Stability and Gap Phenomena for Yang-Mills Fields1985Differential characters and geometric invariants2008Axiomatic Characterization of Ordinary Differential CohomologyOctober 2008Structured Vector Bundles Define Differential K-TheoryJanuary 2010The Atiyah Singer Index Theorem and Chern Weil FormsMarch 2010Testimony of James H. Simons, Chair and Founder, Math for America - House Committee on Science and Technology hearing on Reform of K-12 STEM EducationOctober 2010The Mayer-Vietoris Property in Differential Cohomology2014Letter From the President and the Chair (Simons Foundation 2014 Annual Report PDF) - James H. Simons, ChairMarch 2018Characters for Complex Bundles and their ConnectionsApril 2021My friendship with ChernNovember 2023James H. Simons, PhD: Using Mathematics to Make Money (Journal of Investment Consulting, Vol. 22 No. 1, pp. 4-9)InterviewsApril 2011Jim Simons on Fixing American Math Education (interviewed by Jon Meacham)September 2012Simons Foundation Chair Jim Simons on His Career in Mathematics2015Jim Simons: The mathematician who cracked Wall Street (A rare interview)2015Jim Simons (full length interview) - Numberphile2015A rare interview with the mathematician who cracked Wall StreetFebruary 2019S. Donald Sussman Fellowship Fireside Chat with Dr. James Simons — Chat 1 (Mathematics)March 2019S. Donald Sussman Fellowship Fireside Chat with Dr. James Simons — Chat 2 (Finance, moderated by Andrew Lo)March 2019S. Donald Sussman Fellowship Fireside Chat with Dr. James Simons — Chat 3 (Philanthropy)June 2020Jim Simons: Life Lessons from the 'World's Smartest Billionaire' (#054)December 2020Oral History Interviews: Jim Simons (interviewed by David Zierler)October 2021Jim Simons: Math, Codes, Hunting Talent, Stocks, & Science2022A conversation with Jim Simons: Mathematics, Common Sense and Good LuckDecember 2025Jim Simons - Science Lives Interview Key Articles About Jim Simons2000The Billionaire Mathematician — Hal Lux, Institutional Investor2016Inside a Moneymaking Machine Like No Other — Katherine Burton, Bloomberg2015Renaissance's $100 Billion Hidden Market — Miles Weiss, Bloomberg2014Seeker, Doer, Giver, Ponderer: A Billionaire Mathematician's Life of Ferocious Curiosity — William J. Broad, The New York Times2017Jim Simons, the Numbers King — D. T. Max, The New YorkerRenaissance Technologies $7 Billion IRS Tax Settlement: How Jim Simons Gamed Basket Options — YouTube (Financially Aware)May 2025#387 Jim Simons Built The World's Greatest Money-Making Machine — Founders (David Senra)May 2024Simons Foundation Co-Founder, Mathematician and Investor Jim Simons Dies at 86 — Simons Foundation2024Remembering Jim Simons — A Discussion with author Gregory Zuckerman on 'The Man Who Solved the Market' — YouTube (Quantopian)May 2024The 'Quant King' who shook the world of hedge funds with his secretive Renaissance Technologies has died at 86 — Fortune (Bloomberg)