Greg Zuckerman, author of THE MAN WHO SOLVED THE MARKET.
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Portfolio/Penguin presents Wall Street Journal reporter 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 money maker 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 (read here!) and the Financial Times (read here!) and adapted in the Wall Street Journal (read here!), and we are looking forward to more reviews and features throughout the week and beyond.
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About Gregory Zuckerman
Senior Writer, The Wall Street Journal
Gregory Zuckerman is a Special Writer at The Wall Street Journal. He writes about big financial trades, hedge funds, private-equity firms and other investing and business topics. In the past, Greg wrote the “Heard on the Street” column and covered the credit markets for the paper.
Greg is the author of “The Frackers: The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters,” published November 2013 by Penguin Press. He’s also the author of “The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History,” published in December 2010 by Crown Business, a division of Random House. Greg and his two sons wrote Rising Above: How 11 Athletes Overcame Challenges in their Youth to Become Stars,” a book for young readers and adults that describes the moving and remarkable stories of how various stars overcame imposing setbacks in their youth.
Greg joined the Journal in 1996 after writing about media companies for the New York Post. Previously, he was the managing editor of Mergers & Acquisitions Report, a newsletter published by Investment Dealers’ Digest.
Greg graduated from Brandeis University in 1988, Magna Cum Laude. He lives with his wife and two sons in West Orange, N.J., where they enjoy the Yankees in the summer, the Giants in the fall, and reminisce about Jeremy Lin in the winter.
Click here for Video of Jim Simons TED talk
Jim Simons Mathematics and Luck
Greg’s other books can be found on Amazon here and you can follow him on Twitter and LinkedIn
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