American mathematician and Fields Medal-adjacent number theorist who joined Renaissance Technologies' early trading operation — co-founding Axcom before it became the Medallion Fund — and developed early systematic trading models.
Helped formalize Renaissance's early commodity trading algorithms as one of the original Axcom researchers, building the mathematical infrastructure that preceded the Medallion Fund's extraordinary run.
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