ChristianKl comments on Mathematics and saving lives - Less Wrong Discussion
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The FAI problem needs people doing math.
I think there are various biological problems where the math is underdeveloped. Physicists are as a community quite good at math but in biology there aren't that as people working on the underlying math.
Problems such as calculating cancer survival rates could benefit a lot from better statistical tools. Depending on what you mean with pure math statistics might not be included, but statistics matters.