Greg Zuckerman, author of THE MAN WHO SOLVED THE MARKET: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution (#040)

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Keating, Director of the Simons Observatory, interviews Greg
Zuckerman, author of the bestselling biography of Jim Simons, “The
Man Who Solved The Market”. Portfolio/Penguin has published
Greg Zuckerman’s latest book, THE MAN WHO SOLVED THE MARKET: How
Jim Simons Launched The Quant Revolution. This book, the
culmination of two challenging years of research, is the story of
how Simons, a secretive mathematician and code breaker, set out to
conquer financial markets, overcoming a series of imposing
obstacles to become the greatest moneymaker in modern finance.
Recruiting colorful and enigmatic mathematicians and scientists,
Simons embraced algorithms and computer models while Mark
Zuckerberg was still in grade school, launching a quantitative
revolution that has shaken Wall Street. With their winnings,
Simons, his colleague Robert Mercer, and others at Renaissance
Technologies have upended the worlds of education, science and
politics. THE MAN WHO SOLVED THE MARKET was shortlisted for the
Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year award. The book
competed against five of the year’s best nonfiction books for the
award. It’s been reviewed in Bloomberg, and the Financial Times,
and adapted in the Wall Street Journal. Get your copy here: or
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