My upper level and grad math classes had GT-Math kids from Eastern European countries. They were identified when they were very young and were mathematically mature in their teens. They were 2-4 years younger than us and and they were very, very good. It took a lot of hard work by me and others to keep up with them.
They had tremendous breadth across all fields and its applications and knew numbers and transformations and tricks and key ideas most of us never had heard of. They also knew how to prep for tests. It was eye-opening.
They lived and breathed math and had been schooled by the best teachers, some Nobel-caliber, in their nations among a group of their mental peers in a competitive, socratic setting. They got an omnibus education on all the hard sciences from a mathy perspective.
The US has nothing like this at all.
I would think there would be value in an omnibus curriculum that is aimed at generating a Post-Doc level intellect in several fields with a mathy-focus.
The other thing - is how many parents would willingly move to be near a school like this?
