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Brilliant helps learners achieve much higher levels of ability in STEM, in less time, with more purpose and joy.

Brilliant’s lessons prioritize visual representations and active learning. There are no videos—everything is interactive. Lessons build intuition with visual explanations, hands-on manipulation, and concrete computation. Brilliant predicts the optimal next problem to ask, so that learners are adequately prepared to answer future questions.

Brilliant’s content spans algebra, programming, and other quantitative problem solving across math and computer science. The courses are crafted by multiple IMO medalists and PhDs from MIT, Caltech, Stanford, and Harvard.

The optimized learning experience is not only interactive, adaptive, and effective—it’s also fun. The gamification layer provides scaffolding for motivation and habit formation, helping learners stick with it even in the absence of tutors or parents to help foster motivation.

The content itself is also designed to feel fun—from the pedagogical design of the interactives and problem progression, to the types of sounds, feedback, and haptics as learners interact and progress through levels of progressively more difficult problem solving in a topic.

Brilliant serves people who take pride in having a well-trained mind—students seeking to excel in STEM, professionals learning new skills or refreshing dormant ones, and lifelong learners staying sharp.