shaih comments on Mathematics and saving lives - Less Wrong

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Comment author: shaih 19 April 2014 05:12:13PM 0 points [-]

There is something to be said to improving the quality of life as well as saving lives. In scientific and discovery fields such as pure math, contributions could improve the quality of life exponentially.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 19 April 2014 07:15:40PM 1 point [-]

Quite possibly. Do you have ideas about which math specialties and/or which problems are more likely to have a big effect?