https://www.scmp.com/rss/330093/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Before he was denounced as a thief and cast out of the hedge fund industry, before he was a Goldman Sachs banker or a maths prodigy, Ke Xu was a little boy in Hubei province, who loved puzzles. His parents, junior government clerks, didn’t have much money, so Xu would scour the house to find old algebra and science textbooks. He spent hours with the series 100,000 Whys, children’s brainteasers with a Maoist flavour. The commune wants to build 40 tractors – how many wheels should it buy? When Xu... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/2181637/chinese-maths-prodigy-turned-hedge-fund-coder-and?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/2181637/chinese-maths-prodigy-turned-hedge-fund-coder-and?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 12 Jan 2019 14:01:15 +0000