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James Ax (James Burton Ax) was born on 10 January, 1937 in New York City, USA, is an American mathematician. Discover James Ax's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 69 years old?

Popular As James Burton Ax
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Age 69 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 10 January 1937
Birthday 10 January
Birthplace New York City, USA
Date of death 11 June, 2006
Died Place Los Angeles, USA
Nationality American

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1937

James Burton Ax (10 January 1937 – 11 June 2006) was an American mathematician who made groundbreaking contributions in Algebra and number theory using model theory.

He shared, with Simon B. Kochen, the seventh Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Number Theory, which was awarded for a series of three joint papers on Diophantine problems.

Ax was born in New York City and graduated from Stuyvesant High School.

He then joined the Brooklyn Polytechnic University.

1961

He earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1961 under the direction of Gerhard Hochschild, with a dissertation on The Intersection of Norm Groups.

After a year at Stanford University, he joined the mathematics faculty at Cornell University.

1965

He spent the academic year 1965–1966 at Harvard University on a Guggenheim Fellowship.

1967

Ax is the father of American cosmologist Brian Keating and Kevin B. Keating (b. 1967), who is the president of the Kevin and Masha Keating Family Foundation.

After Ax and his first wife divorced, she remarried a man named Keating, and young Brian and his older brother Kevin took the stepfather's name.

1969

In 1969, he was recruited by his Berkeley classmate Jim Simons to move from Cornell to the mathematics department at Stony Brook University.

1970

In 1970 he was an Invited Speaker at the ICM in Nice with the talk Transcendence and differential algebraic geometry.

In the 1970s, he worked on the fundamentals of physics, including an axiomatization of space-time and the group theoretical properties of the axioms of quantum mechanics.

1977

In 1977 he retired from his academic career and joined a hedge fund run by Jim Simons.

1980

In the 1980s, he and Simons founded the quantitative finance firm Axcom Trading Advisors, which was later acquired by Renaissance Technologies and renamed the Medallion Fund.

The latter fund was named after the Cole Prize won by James Ax and the Veblen Prize won by James Simons.

1990

In the early 1990s, Ax retired from his financial career and went to San Diego, California, where he studied further on the foundations of quantum mechanics and also attended, at the University of California, San Diego, courses on playwriting and screenwriting.

2005

(In 2005 he completed a thriller screenplay entitled Bots.)

The Ax Library in the Department of Mathematics at the University of California, San Diego houses his mathematical books.

2020

Brian Keating explained (in 2020) that he and his father were not close during his childhood; his father often joked that 'I don't really care about kids until they learn Algebra.'