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https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2012/09/28/simons-foundation-chair-jim-simons-on-his-career-in-mathematics/

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«When he was fourteen, Jim Simons got a vacation job in the stockroom of a garden supply store, but he was so bad at remembering where things went that he was quickly demoted to floor sweeper. At the end of the holiday season, his supervisors kindly asked him about his future plans, and Simons could tell that his answer struck them as hilarious: He wanted to study mathematics at the nearby Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “The guy who couldn’t remember where to put the sheep manure, he wants to be a mathematician at MIT,” Simons sensed they were thinking.

Three years later, however, Simons did just that: He enrolled at MIT, launching a two-decade academic career. Unlike most research mathematicians, however, Simons went on to pursue two other major careers: as CEO of a highly successful hedge fund company, and later as a philanthropist…»