Education
James Ax earned his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley in 1961 under the direction of Gerhard Hochschild, with a dissertation on The Intersection of Norm Groups.
mathematician university professor
James Ax earned his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley in 1961 under the direction of Gerhard Hochschild, with a dissertation on The Intersection of Norm Groups.
After one year at Stanford University, he joined the mathematics faculty at Cornell University. In 1969, he moved to the mathematics department at Stony Brook University and remained on the faculty until 1977. In the 1980s, he and James Simons founded a quantitative finance firm, Axcom Trading Advisors, which was later acquired by Renaissance Technologies and renamed the Medallion Fund.
The Ax Library in the Department of Mathematics at the University of California, San Diego houses his mathematical books