Wow, Simons was an award winning genius mathematician before his gang started writing investing software. He was the youngest head of a math dept at a major university in the country and had won significant awards.

No one's going to look back and call him an idiot, why not check out the historical performance of his company, Renaissance? The title of the book, by the way, is not hyperbole, either. His chief assistant was Robert Mercer who is now bankrolling political causes