In The Man Who Solved the Market, business journalist Gregory Zuckerman tells the story of Jim Simons, a former mathematician who became one of the most successful hedge fund managers in history. He founded his hedge fund, Renaissance Technologies, in the late 1970s. What set Renaissance apart was Simons’s insight that price fluctuations within financial markets followed recognizable and predictable patterns. When identified, these patterns could be used to strategically buy and sell the right stocks, bonds, currencies, and other financial instruments at the right time.
