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The mathematician who cracked Wall Street | Jim Simons
TED
A TED interview in which Chris Anderson talks with Jim Simons about his life: code-breaking, math, founding Renaissance Technologies, and his philanthropy in math education and origins-of-life research.
HN cites it as a view of Simons as a humble, pragmatic person, with the caveat that the host's questions are weak.
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