Jim Simons: you can teach a physicist finance, but not the reverse
mdancho84 · x · 2026-09-07
Renaissance Technologies founder Jim Simons: "You can teach a physicist finance but you cannot teach a finance person physics"—a comment on why math and physics backgrounds remain the scarce, hard-to-teach core skill in quantitative finance.
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