The Million-Dollar Talent Wars for 20-Something Math GeniusesThe Wall Street Journal ^ | July 30, 2026 5:30 am ET | Julia AmannPosted on by E. Pluribus UnumFlush with cash, Wall Street and Silicon Valley are vying to hire the same tiny pool of genius graduatesThere has never been a better time to be a math nerd. So-called quant firms, which use sophisticated mathematical models to come up with trades, have for years wooed top young talent with lucrative compensation that big banks struggle to match. by 2 posted onby ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.) by 4 posted onby NorthernDancer (“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”) by 12 posted onby jimfree (My 23 y/o granddaughter has more quality exec experience than most Dem pres candidates.)