Eric Weinstein

We're just going to make numbers like nobody's ever made in human history.

There's nobody in second or third place relative to Renaissance technology medallion fund.

And how is it connected to this university?

And what do you think is going on up there?

One, I don't know.

But something weird.

It's weird as hell.

I knew Jim Simons personally.

Jim Simons...

is a genius.

But a lot of other people are geniuses.

I hate to say it, but you can't swing a cat in my world without hitting a genius.

So he was great.

But he wasn't that much smarter than every other genius at that level.

So I would say, you know, top 100 minds in mathematics and physics, clearly, better than that.

Jim started off working for the DIA, the Defense Intelligence Unit.

Supposedly quit out of outrage over Vietnam, becomes the super young chairman of the SUNY Stony Brook Mathematics Department, holds a lunch seminar with a guy who will become the world's smartest living physicist, a guy named C.N.

Yang.

And they discover over lunch a connection between differential geometry, Jim's specialty, and C.N.

Yang's specialty, which is the standard model.