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The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution by Gregory Zuckerman
jenuinepanic's review against another edition
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
3.0
arturpas's review against another edition
3.0
The topic is of high interest to me but there's little of interest in it that wasn't public knowledge. Most of the new content regards Mercer and all the controversy surrounding him.
jerguismi's review against another edition
4.0
Interesting read as a historical story of the Jim Simons company and funds. However, if you come from technical/financial background this book probably won't give you big insights.
divs21's review against another edition
3.5
Will now quote lines from this book in every single job interview.
silver_lining_in_a_book's review against another edition
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
4.25
Work with the smartest people you can, hopefully smarter than you . . . be persistent, don’t give up easily. Be guided by beauty . . . it can be the way a company runs, or the way an experiment comes out, or the way a theorem comes out, but there’s a sense of beauty when something is working well, almost an aesthetic to it.
I understand the issue that a lot of people have with this book,* but I do think that the author has successfully accomplished to do what he intended. Had the writing been more technically advanced this would have been a very different book. I enjoyed it for what it was: I found the political commentary to be highly inciteful, I enjoyed learning about the bright minds that played such a crucial role in the establishment of Renaissance Technologies. It would have been nice to hear more from the female employees at the bank** and to learn a little more about the type of statistical analysis (besides just stating Markov Chains) that led to Renaissance's success.
Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed this novel and Zuckerman's writing was a treat to read. I look forward to checking out more of his works.
* Primarily, I am referring to the lack of mathematical explanations, statistical analysis and the potentially misleading title.
** I understand that there were not many female employees, but I am certain that there were some incredible women that played an important role in Renaissance. I was curious to see more about their experience in this male-dominated environment. If Zuckerman decided to steer away from technical details, we could have afforded to explore the workplace dynamics in this sense a little further.