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Mathematics and computation

Mathematics and computation

Money from maths

09 May 2020
Taken from the May 2020 issue of Physics World.

David Appell reviews The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution by Gregory Zuckerman

Jim Simons (second from right) at the opening of the New York Genome Center in 2013.
Modern-day Medici: Jim Simons (second from right) at the opening of the New York Genome Center in 2013. Simons is on the centre’s board of directors and has donated tens of millions of dollars to it. (Courtesy: Mary Altaffer/AP/Shutterstock)
Meet Jim Simons – mathematician, “quant”, billionaire, philanthropist and a unique kind of gen

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David Appell is a science writer living in Keizer, Oregon, US, www.davidappell.com
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