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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Jim Simons was fixated on mathematics from an exceptionally early age.
Chapter 3: Soon after finishing school, Simons joined academia, then abruptly left to break Soviet codes for an intelligence agency.
Chapter 4: Simons achieved great success in geometry and devised a novel trading system.
Chapter 5: Following a second spell in academia, Simons launched the hedge fund management firm Monemetrics.
Chapter 6: Simons named his Monemetrics fund for a character in a Joseph Conrad novel, which proved quite revealing.
Chapter 7: Simons brought computers into the investing world with remarkable, lasting success.
Chapter 8: Simons’s career led him into the orbit of a brilliant man who would go on to court major controversy.
Chapter 9: When all is said and done, Jim Simons’s résumé is an astonishing document.
Description
The Man Who Solved the Market (2019) traces the life of enigmatic hedge fund manager and mathematician Jim Simons. It chronicles his early life as a brilliant geometer who won awards for his math, to his work breaking Soviet codes, all the way through to his success with his hedge fund management firm Renaissance Technologies. Far more than just another investor, Simons changed the world with his math and methods.
Who Should Listen
- Anyone working in the world of finance
- Business journalists
- Mathematicians and geometers