Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution | Gregory Zuckerman

This book summary of The Man Who Solved the Market 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.