
James Simons. A conversation with Billionaire Mathematician
James Simons. A conversation with Billionaire Mathematician [HD]
1:43 Berkeley
3:00 Simons & Chern
4:35 Codebreaker
5:16 Knowledge that worth billions of dollars
7:55 Efficient market theory or do prices always right?
9:15 Machine Learning
13:18 Never look back
14:45 Math for America
15:54 If you know enough math to teach in high school you know enough to work for Google
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James Harris “Jim” Simons (born 1938) is an American mathematician, hedge fund manager, and philanthropist. He is a code breaker and studies pattern recognition. Simons is the co-inventor – with Shiing-Shen Chern – of the Chern–Simons form,Chern and Simons (1974) one of the most important parts of string theory.
Simons was a professor of mathematics at Stony Brook University and was also the former chair of the Mathematics Department at Stony Brook.
In 1982, Simons founded Renaissance Technologies, a private hedge fund investment company based in New York with over $25 billion under management. Simons retired at the end of 2009 as CEO of one of the world’s most successful hedge fund companies. Simons’ net worth is estimated to be $14 billion.