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Book report: Gregory Zuckerman's biography of Jim Simons, the mathematician whose fund averaged 66 percent a year. What it argues, and the chapters worth the price.

Zuckerman's biography of Jim Simons explains how a mathematician's fund averaged 66 percent a year since 1988: not by picking stocks but by trading thousands of weak price patterns so often that a bare majority of wins compounded.

On the book: The Man Who Solved the Market by Gregory Zuckerman

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