NEW YORK TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BUSINESS BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE FT AND MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2019Reads more like a delicious pageturning novel...Put it on your holiday gift list for your favourite hedgefund honcho BloombergA compelling read EconomistCaptivating New York Times book reviewJim Simons is the greatest moneymaker in modern financial history. His record bests those of legendary investors including Warren Buffett George Soros and Ray Dalio. Yet Simons and his strategies are shrouded in mystery. The financial industry has long craved a look inside Simonss secretive hedge fund Renaissance Technologies and veteran Wall Street Journal reporter Gregory Zuckerman delivers the goods.After a legendary career as a mathematician and a stint breaking Soviet codes Simons set out to conquer financial markets with a radical approach. Simons hired physicists mathematicians and computer scientists most of whom knew little about finance to amass piles of data and build algorithms hunting for the deeply hidden patterns in global markets. Experts scoffed but Simons and his colleagues became some of the richest in the world their strategy of creating mathematical models and crunching data embraced by almost every industry today.As Renaissance became a major player in the financial world its executives began exerting influence on other areas. Simons became a major force in scientific research education and Democratic politics funding Hilary Clintons presidential campaign. While senior executive Robert Mercer is more responsible than anyone else for the Trump presidency he placed Steve Bannon in the campaign funded Trumps victorious 2016 effort and backed altright publication Breitbart. Mercer also impacted the success of the Brexit campaign as he made significant investments in Cambridge Anatlytica. For all his prescience Simons failed to anticipate how Mercers activity would impact his firm and the world.In this fastpaced narrative Zuckerman exami