Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot
This helps protect our community. Learn more

Jim Simons: Life Lessons from the ‘World’s Smartest Billionaire' (Ep. 54)

Dr Brian Keating
318K subscribers
93K views 5 years ago Full-length episodes of Brian Keating's Into The Impossible Podcast
#JimSimons #Billionaire #LifeLessons Mathematician, code breaker, Professor, hedge fund pioneer, & philanthropist Jim Simons makes his first-ever podcast appearance on this episode of INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE. Learn about Chern-Simons theory, leadership lessons, hedge funds, and a dedication to serve the world through basic research. Join my mailing list to get a FREE copy of TEN LIFE LESSONS FROM Jim SIMONS. Click here 👉 http://briankeating.com/mailing_list.php 📝 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:    • Billionaire Mathematician - Numberphile   In this interview, we discuss heroes, fatherhood, leadership and the art of math. Read my Medium article about Jim:   / czc2nh2pp8   0:00 Introduction 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 f …...more
...more
Jim Simons: Life Lessons from the ‘World’s Smartest Billionaire' (Ep. 54)
2KLikes
93,864Views
2020Jun 21
#JimSimons #Billionaire #LifeLessons Mathematician, code breaker, Professor, hedge fund pioneer, & philanthropist Jim Simons makes his first-ever podcast appearance on this episode of INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE. Learn about Chern-Simons theory, leadership lessons, hedge funds, and a dedication to serve the world through basic research. Join my mailing list to get a FREE copy of TEN LIFE LESSONS FROM Jim SIMONS. Click here 👉 http://briankeating.com/mailing_list.php 📝 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:    • Billionaire Mathematician - Numberphile   In this interview, we discuss heroes, fatherhood, leadership and the art of math. Read my Medium article about Jim:   / czc2nh2pp8   0:00 Introduction 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    • The mathematician who cracked Wall Street ...   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 and follow them on Twitter:   / simonsfdn   Watch my most popular videos: Noam Chomsky:    • Noam Chomsky: Consciousness, Elon Musk, & ...   Eric Weinstein & Stephen Wolfram    • How can we put “Theories of Everything” to...   Sasha Sagan    • Sasha Sagan: Cosmic Rituals   Adam Riess    • Hubble Constant CRISIS! Nobel Laureate Ada...   Sabine Hossenfelder:    • Sabine Hossenfelder: That New Theory of Ev...   Sarah Scoles:    • Sarah Scoles, Author of “They Are Already ...   Stephen Wolfram:    • Has Stephen Wolfram discovered a new funda...   Ann Druyan :    • Ann Druyan: Matriarch of the Cosmos (055)   Dr Becky:    • Dr. Becky: Crash Course- Outer Space (069)   Eric Weinstein:    • Eric Weinstein: Geometric Unity Revealed (...   🏄‍♂️ Find me on Twitter at   / drbriankeating   🔥 Find me on Instagram at   / drbriankeating   📖 Buy my book LOSING THE NOBEL PRIZE: http://amzn.to/2sa5UpA 🔔 Subscribe for more great content https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeatin... ✍️Detailed Blog posts here: https://briankeating.com/blog.php 📧Join my mailing list: http://briankeating.com/mailing_list.php 👪Join my Facebook Group:   / losingthenobelprize   🎙️Please subscribe, rate, and review the INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/i... Support the podcast:   / drbriankeating   A production of http://imagination.ucsd.edu/ ~-~~-~~~-~~-~ Please watch: "Neil DeGrasse Tyson: Plays the Race Card!"    • Neil DeGrasse Tyson Hit Me With the Race C...   ~-~~-~~~-~~-~
Full-length episodes of Brian Keating's Into The Impossible Podcast
Dr Brian Keating

Follow along using the transcript.

Dr Brian Keating

318K subscribers