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The Math Revolution That Changed Wall Street

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Try to count cards at a blackjack table in a casino, and you may be escorted from the premises.  But use your math skills on the stock market, and you may be richly rewarded. 

Case in point: Jim Simons, an extremely adept mathematician and former code-breaker who has worked the stock markets better than anyone alive.  The story of his rising fortune--up to $23 Billion lately--is told by Wall Street Journal reporter Gregory Zuckerman in The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution.  Simons' riches have led to unprecedented financial and even political power; we get the story in this interview with the author.
 

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