Greg Zuckerman, author of THE MAN WHO SOLVED THE MARKET: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution (#040)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

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🗓️ 20 April 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Find show notes and other resources here Brian Keating, Director of the Simons Observatory, interviews Greg Zuckerman, author of the bestselling biography of Jim Simons, “The Man Who Solved The Market”. Portfolio/Penguin has published Greg Zuckerman’s latest book, THE MAN WHO SOLVED THE MARKET: How Jim Simons Launched The Quant Revolution. This book, the culmination of two challenging years of research, is the story of how Simons, a secretive mathematician and code breaker, set out to conquer financial markets, overcoming a series of imposing obstacles to become the greatest moneymaker in modern finance. Recruiting colorful and enigmatic mathematicians and scientists, Simons embraced algorithms and computer models while Mark Zuckerberg was still in grade school, launching a quantitative revolution that has shaken Wall Street. With their winnings, Simons, his colleague Robert Mercer, and others at Renaissance Technologies have upended the worlds of education, science and politics. THE MAN WHO SOLVED THE MARKET was shortlisted for the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year award. The book competed against five of the year’s best nonfiction books for the award. It’s been reviewed in Bloomberg, and the Financial Times, and adapted in the Wall Street Journal. Get your copy here: or from our friends at Warwicks.com For more, including an excerpt of the book and its many endorsements and reviews, visit here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The only thing we can be sure of about the future is that it will be absolutely fantastic.
0:04.4	Five, four, three, two, one.
0:10.4	It is my pleasure to be joined with a friend of mine, Greg Zuckerman, an author and writer.
0:18.4	This is not picking up on. There's a book coming in here. This is the man who solved the market, how Jim
0:25.8	Simon's launch the Quant Revolution, and I am Brian Keating, co-director of the
0:30.9	Arthur C. Clark Center for Human Imagination at
0:33.4	UC San Diego's Arthur C. Clark Center for Human
0:37.0	Imagination.
0:38.4	And this is into the impossible podcast
0:40.8	based on one of Arthur C. Clark's laws. He had many laws, one of which you're
0:45.3	probably familiar with that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable
0:50.3	from magic. You probably heard that before.
0:53.0	And then another one is the only way
0:54.7	to find out what's possible is to go a little bit beyond
0:57.6	into the impossible.
0:59.5	And so that's what we like to think of ourselves here.
1:01.8	We talk about creative people, with folks all over the world
1:05.0	in all different genres from studies of the Cosmos,
1:10.6	near and dear to my heart, to business leaders thought leaders such as yourself
1:15.2	Julian Guthrie you're going to have Peter Deimandes on soon
1:18.4	science fiction writers like Annalee Newitz and David Bryn.
1:23.0	And then sometimes we do things that are just of interest to me,
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