The mathematician who cracked Wall Street

QuantMaxxing on Instagram: "Jim Simons began as a world-class mathematician whose work was deeply connected to physics. He specialized in geometry and topology, and became famous for contributions to differential geometry, including the Chern–Simons theory, which later became foundational in theoretical physics, especially in gauge theory and quantum field theory. His early career was built on solving extremely abstract problems involving high-dimensional structures, curvature, and nonlinear sys