{"id":299,"date":"2005-11-19T15:35:26","date_gmt":"2005-11-19T20:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=299"},"modified":"2006-04-03T21:52:22","modified_gmt":"2006-04-04T02:52:22","slug":"jim-simons-in-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=299","title":{"rendered":"Jim Simons in the New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/select.nytimes.com\/2005\/11\/19\/business\/19nocera.html\">article <\/a> (unfortunately not available for free) in today&#8217;s New York Times based on an interview with the normally publicity-shy mathematician Jim Simons of Chern-Simons fame.  Simons runs the incredibly successful hedge fund Renaissance Technologies, and I&#8217;ve written something about this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=214\">earlier<\/a>.   The New York Times article describe his mathematical career as follows: &#8220;A former crypt analyst &#8211; a code breaker, that is &#8211; he did important work in mathematics that helped lay the foundation for string theory.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an article (unfortunately not available for free) in today&#8217;s New York Times based on an interview with the normally publicity-shy mathematician Jim Simons of Chern-Simons fame. Simons runs the incredibly successful hedge fund Renaissance Technologies, and I&#8217;ve written something &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=299\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}