NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERShortlisted for the Financial Times McKinsey Business Book of the Year
AwardThe unbelievable story of a secretive mathematician who pioneered the era of the
algorithm--and made $23 billion doing it. Jim Simons is the greatest money maker in modern
financial history. No other investor--Warren Buffett Peter Lynch Ray Dalio Steve Cohen or
George Soros--can touch his record. Since 1988 Renaissance's signature Medallion fund has
generated average annual returns of 66 percent. The firm has earned profits of more than $100
billion Simons is worth twenty-three billion dollars. Drawing on unprecedented access to
Simons and dozens of current and former employees Zuckerman a veteran Wall Street Journal
investigative reporter tells the gripping story of how a world-class mathematician and former
code breaker mastered the market. Simons pioneered a data-driven algorithmic approach that's
sweeping the world. As Renaissance became a market force its executives began influencing the
world beyond finance. Simons became a major figure in scientific research education and
liberal politics. Senior executive Robert Mercer is more responsible than anyone else for the
Trump presidency placing Steve Bannon in the campaign and funding Trump's victorious 2016
effort. Mercer also impacted the campaign behind Brexit. The Man Who Solved the Market is a
portrait of a modern-day Midas who remade markets in his own image but failed to anticipate
how his success would impact his firm and his country. It's also a story of what Simons's
revolution means for the rest of us.
