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I've asked around a bit, and we can't recall when exactly EY claimed "world-class mathematical ability". As far as I can remember, he's been pretty up-front about wishing he were better at math. I seem to remember him looking for a math-savvy assistant at one point.
If this is the case, it sounds like EY has a Chuck Norris problem, i.e., his mythos has spread beyond its reality.
Yes. At various times we've considered hiring EY an advanced math tutor to take him to the next level more quickly. He's pretty damn good at math but he's not Terence Tao.
So did you ask your friend where this notion of theirs came from?
I have a memory of EY boasting about how he learned to solve high school/college level math before the age of ten, but I couldn't track down where I read that.
Ah, here is the bit I was thinking about:
its in the waybackmachine link in the post you are commenting on!
I hadn't read that link before, so it was somewhere else, too.
I don't remember the post, but I'm pretty sure I remember that Eliezer described himself as a coddled math prodigy, not having made to train seriously and compete, and so he lags behind math prodigies who were made to hone their skills that way, like Marcello.