institute and a center for biological imaging, the study of cancer and infectious diseases, 35 new endowed professorships and 40 fellowships for graduate students. In order to secure the donation, Stony Brook was allowed to raise its annual tuition in opposition to traditional New York state policy. Legacy and awards In 2008, he was inducted into Institutional Investors Alpha's Hedge Fund Manager Hall of Fame along with Alfred Jones, Bruce Kovner, David Swensen, George Soros, Jack Nash, Julian Roberston, Kenneth Griffin, Leon Levy, Louis Bacon, Michael Steinhardt, Paul Tudor Jones, Seth Klarman and Steven A. Cohen. He was named by the Financial Times in 2006 as "the world's smartest billionaire". He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2007. In 2011, he was included in the 50 Most Influential ranking of Bloomberg Markets Magazine. A book about Simons and his investing methods, The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution by Gregory Zuckerman was released November 5, 2019. In 2018, Trinity College Dublin awarded him with an honorary doctorate. Publications and works See also Chern–Simons theory Chern–Simons form Simons' formula Simons' theorem Bernstein's problem Holonomy Plateau's problem List of Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni List of University of California, Berkeley alumni List of people and organizations named in the Paradise Papers References Further reading D. T. Max, "The Numbers King: Algorithms made Jim Simons a Wall Street billionaire. His new research center helps scientists mine data for the common good", The New Yorker, 18 & 25 December 2017, pp. 72–76, 78–83. Baker, Nathaniel (June 24, 2005). "Renaissance Readies Long-Biased Strat". Institutional Investor. Zuckerman, Gregory. The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simon's Launched the Quant Revolution. Portfolio, 2019. External links Titan's Millions Stir Up Research Into Autism "Putting His Money Where His Math Is" – September 2006 article in Seed Magazine. James Simons on mathematics, common sense and good luck: my life and careers, MIT Jim Simons Speaks: Just No to Google and Goldman Sachs James Simons (1-hour interview, May 2015) – Numberphile Speech at MIT A rare interview with the mathematician who cracked Wall Street – TED Talk 1938 births Living people 20th-century American businesspeople 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American businesspeople 21st-century American mathematicians 21st-century philanthropists Academics of Lancaster University Activists from New York (state) American billionaires American chairpersons of corporations American chief executives of financial services companies American cryptographers American financial