PORTFOLIO|The Man Who Solved the Market. How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution

Shortlisted for the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award

The unbelievable story of a secretive mathematician who pioneered the era of the algorithm--and made $23 billion doing it.

Jim Simons is the greatest money maker in modern financial history. No other investor--Warren Buffett, Peter Lynch, Ray Dalio, Steve Cohen, or George Soros--can touch his record. Since 1988, Renaissances signature Medallion fund has generated average annual returns of 66 percent. The firm has earned profits of more than $100 billion