James Simons, the founder of Renaissance Technologies and arguably the world’s most successful quantitative investor, reflects on his career and provides a glimpse into how a passion for mathematics enabled him to amass one of the great fortunes in the field of investment management.
Greg Zuckerman profiled James Simons in his book, The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution, published in 2019.
Simons also sat down for an interview with TED’s Chris Anderson in 2015.
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