US in the Vietnam War,” reports Bloomberg News.Īfter 10 years as head of the mathematics division at Stony Brook University in New York, in 1977 he resigned to start “Monemetrics, a quantitative trading company that focused on commodities, “whose name 5 years later would change to Renaissance Technologies.
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Simons, who was married twice and had three children, “became a part-time code breaker for the National Security Agency (NSA) in 1964” (during the Cold War) until he was fired in 1967, after sending a letter to the New York Times criticizing the US military’s involvement. at the age of 23 from the University of California, taught as an assistant professor at Harvard University after one year at MIT when he would have three on contract. Born April 25, 1938, in Brookline, Massachusetts, James Harris Simons graduated from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), completed his Ph.D.
Speaking of logical explanation, let’s go back to the owner of the ‘Archimedes’, Jim Simons, whose fortune is estimated at 25.7 billion dollars (21.65 billion euros), has been retired since January this year, at the age of 83.
On this voyage, coming from Gibraltar, the ‘Archimedes’ could go to Miami (3,811.56 nautical miles from Gibraltar), but may well be on its way ‘home’ as the ship is registered in the Bermuda archipelago, the so-called ‘mysterious triangle’, one of the greatest myths on this planet and which has been traversing for hundreds of years and still without an apparent logical explanation. However, the Port of Funchal is seen as a last contact with land before the great crossing or, in the opposite sense, the first contact with land after crossing the Atlantic Ocean in this area on the edge of the Mediterranean. It has an autonomy of up to 6,000 nautical miles (on land it is 11,112 kilometers).īasically, if the ship were going from one continent to another as it seems to be doing on this trip, it would not need to dock in Madeira. To give you an idea, the more than 70 metres long and 13 metres wide of the ‘Archimedes’ guarantee a smooth navigability (12 nautical knots at cruising speed), reaching a maximum of 16 nautical speed knots (29, 63 km/h if it were on land). With a capacity to transport up to 12 people in six cabins, served by 18 crew members, the luxury vessel cost a modest amount of 100 million dollars (84.23 million euros) and has an annual maintenance cost of 10 million. The ‘Archimedes’ was built in 2008, when Simons was already 70 years old. The yacht’s history is short compared to the long and interesting life of its owner. The superyacht ‘Archimedes’, named after one of the best-known mathematicians of Ancient Greece, but curiously – probably because of that – is also owned by a mathematician of contemporary times who is a billionaire who made his fortune in private equity funds, James (Jim) Simons. The double ended round bildged steel hull requiring a high level of skilled plate rolling.The Diario reports that the superyacht ‘Archimedes’ arrived in Funchal yesterday at lunchtime and will remain until tomorrow.Specifically designed to sail around the world, including Cape Horn.A combination of Australian Jarrah and Maple throughout the interior.
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Archimedes, a unique and funky Jay Benford designed boat required a yard where the owner was free to provide input during the build process.
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