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Jim Simons: Life Lessons from the ‘World’s Smartest Billionaire’ (#054)
Jim Simons: Life Lessons from the ‘World’s Smartest Billionaire’ (#054)
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87 minutes
Released:
Jun 27, 2020
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Podcast episode
Description
Mathematician, codebreaker, Professor, hedge fund pioneer, & philanthropist Jim Simons makes his first-ever podcast appearance on this episode of INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE with UC San Diego Professor Brian Keating. Learn about Chern-Simons theory, leadership lessons, hedge funds, and a dedication to serve the world through basic research from a master. It is truly a delight to share with you the more personal side of the man who’s been called The World’s Smartest Billionaire: https://youtu.be/gjVDqfUhXOY In this interview, we discuss heroes, fatherhood, leadership and the art of math.
00:15:15 Why he’d invite Abraham Lincoln to dinner.
00:23:42 Discovering Zeno’s paradox at the age of three.
00:34:28 Can math be beautiful?
00:46:25 Lessons from a master investor: alpha vs. beta.
00:56:06 The serendipitous Chern-Simons partnership. 01:03:18 A father’s love.
01:11:09 The legacy of a good example.
Jim Simons earned a Ph.D. in mathematics from UC Berkeley at the age of 23. He worked as a mathematician for the NSA and as a professor and department chair at Stony Brook University. Simons earned billions after founding the hedge fund firm Renaissance Technologies. He co-founded the Simons Foundation with his wife Marilyn in 1994 to advance scientific research. The foundation provided funding for the Simons Observatory, a telescope array being built in the Atacama Desert of Northern Chile https://simonsobservatory.org/ Simons also founded Math For America in 2004 to facilitate better math education.
Watch a TED interview with Jim Simons https://youtu.be/U5kIdtMJGc8
Learn about the Simons Observatory, including the Simons-National Society of Black Physicists Scholars Program (SNSP) https://simonsobservatory.org/snsp.php
Learn more about the Simons Foundation on the web: https://www.simonsfoundation.org
follow them on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SimonsFdn
Please subscribe, rate, and review the INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/into-the-impossible/id1169885840?mt=2
00:15:15 Why he’d invite Abraham Lincoln to dinner.
00:23:42 Discovering Zeno’s paradox at the age of three.
00:34:28 Can math be beautiful?
00:46:25 Lessons from a master investor: alpha vs. beta.
00:56:06 The serendipitous Chern-Simons partnership. 01:03:18 A father’s love.
01:11:09 The legacy of a good example.
Jim Simons earned a Ph.D. in mathematics from UC Berkeley at the age of 23. He worked as a mathematician for the NSA and as a professor and department chair at Stony Brook University. Simons earned billions after founding the hedge fund firm Renaissance Technologies. He co-founded the Simons Foundation with his wife Marilyn in 1994 to advance scientific research. The foundation provided funding for the Simons Observatory, a telescope array being built in the Atacama Desert of Northern Chile https://simonsobservatory.org/ Simons also founded Math For America in 2004 to facilitate better math education.
Watch a TED interview with Jim Simons https://youtu.be/U5kIdtMJGc8
Learn about the Simons Observatory, including the Simons-National Society of Black Physicists Scholars Program (SNSP) https://simonsobservatory.org/snsp.php
Learn more about the Simons Foundation on the web: https://www.simonsfoundation.org
follow them on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SimonsFdn
Please subscribe, rate, and review the INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/into-the-impossible/id1169885840?mt=2
Released:
Jun 27, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
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