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The Man Who Solved the Market (Zuckerman)
Gregory Zuckerman's 2019 history of Jim Simons and Renaissance Technologies: codebreaker-mathematician turned investor, the Medallion Fund's record, hiring scientists not financiers, data and small edges at scale, and the culture behind it.
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Prereqs: Quant strategies overview; Ed Thorp. Next: Flash Boys; Two Sigma & D.E. Shaw. Source: Gregory Zuckerman, *The Man Who Solved the Market* (2019).Next: 1. Simons