Jim Simons, a mathematician who founded the most ... During the Vietnam War, he worked as a codebreaker for U.S. intelligence, monitoring the Soviet Union and successfully cracking a Russian ...

James “Jim” Simons, a renowned mathematician and pioneering ... for Defense Analyses in Princeton, New Jersey, as a code breaker for the National Security Agency. And from 1968 to 1978 ...

"Jim Simons spots patterns ... his skills in cryptography saw him hired as a code-breaker for the National Security Agency. By 1967, though, Simons was in open conflict with his boss, the ...

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.