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Jim Simons's quantitative fund, whose Medallion returns are the best on record; extreme secrecy means one book carries the subject.
5 books · 4 people behind it
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- The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant RevolutionGregory Zuckerman, 2019
- The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed ItScott Patterson, 2010
- Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall StreetWilliam Poundstone, 2005
The people behind it 4
Each person holds a book in this entry or names it in their own tags.
Journalists 4
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Sebastian Mallaby1 book hereGZ
Gregory Zuckerman1 book hereWP
William Poundstone1 book hereSP
Scott Patterson1 book hereBooks 5
Gregory Zuckerman · 2019 · The only substantial book on the firm.
Sebastian Mallaby · 2010 · Standard hedge fund history; the Medallion chapter is the best pre-Zuckerman account.
Scott Patterson · 2010 · Places Simons's fund inside the wider quant industry it seeded.
William Poundstone · 2005 · Kelly criterion and information theory: the intellectual lineage Medallion trades on.
James Owen Weatherall · 2013 · How physicists and mathematicians came to run money; useful context for Simons.