His love of solving logic puzzles was to take him on a path that would make him a billionaire. But from an early age all Karel Janecek knew was that he would be a mathematician.
Now a financial maths lecturer, Janecek has turned the problem-solving powers that helped revolutionise stock market trading to the problems of human society. The key to resolving society’s issues, he says, are the values a society treasures and agrees upon – alongside some sharply reasoned revamping of the voting system.
