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There was a book published last week on Jim Simons and Renaissance Technologies: https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Solved-Market-Revolution/dp/073521798X/ https:/
by melling 7y ago
There was a book published last week on Jim Simons and Renaissance Technologies:
https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Solved-Market-Revolution/dp/073521798X/ https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Solved-Market-Revolution/dp/0...
The author was interviewed on the Masters in Businesss podcast:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2019-10-30/gregory-zuckerman-on-the-quant-revolution-podcast https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2019-10-30/gregory-zuck...
Simons is a serious mathematician:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Simons_(mathematician) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Simons_(mathematician)
He won the Oswald Veblen Prize in 1976:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Veblen_Prize_in_Geometry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Veblen_Prize_in_Geometr...
- tgb 7y agoHe's still an active mathematician, too, for example a 2018 pre-print: https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.07129 https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.07129