Pour one out for this guy, who quit being chair of the Stony Brook Math Department to make some cash. www.nytimes.com/2024/05/10/b...

Jim Simons, Math Genius Who Conquered Wall Street, Dies at 86

Using advanced computers, he went from M.I.T. professor to multibillionaire. His Medallion fund had 66 percent average annual returns for decades.

it's real biopic material isn't it. in part because he used that cash to support an enormous amount of research www.simonsfoundation.org

Simons Foundation

Advancing Research in Basic Science and Mathematics | Simons Foundation on Simons Foundation

Committing unmeasurable evil, no doubt.

He sure was a bloody genius!

...and gave a bundle of that cash back to Stony Brook! news.stonybrook.edu/newsroom/pre...

Leaving us all better off, I’m sure