SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS OF : THE MAN WHO SOLVED THE MARKET: - The Best Highlights and Key Concepts | Save Money and Time With Summaries

by Neil Zuckerman

What’s in it for me? Delve into the life of an enigmatic hedge fund manager and mathematician. Jim Simons likes to watch for patterns in the financial markets. He sees them as beautiful, mysterious forms, like great shoals of fish or the nebulae in the night sky. He knows that behind these patterns – like everything else in the universe – is mathematics. And by using mathematics, he knows that he can predict changes in these patterns. And by doing that, he can make money – and lots of it. Jim Simons is the most successful investor in modern history. His hedge fund firm, Renaissance Technologies, is discussed in reverent tones in the business world – it sets the gold standard globally, with financial analysts trying to understand its secretive, ground-breaking methods. But Jim Simons is much more than a Wall Street money an award-winning geometer, code-breaker, and philanthropist, he’s had a career that should span several lifetimes. To sample a little of his extraordinary life, start at these study guide. You’ll find out • how Simons grasped Zeno’s paradox at the age of four; • why he named his hedge fund after a Joseph Conrad novel; and • what he didn’t wear when lecturing on mathematics.

20 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 28, 2020