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Pharrell Wu began doing math at age one and was trading stocks at age three. Living in the Philippines, Wu became bored with the math curriculum at his school and started Googling for hard math problems on the one computer his parents owned at home. He came upon Brilliant.org, a recently launched online community that challenges and brings together technical minds to colve math and analytics problems, and started completing problems. Brilliant’s founder Sue Khim saw that Wu was crushing college students in some of the math exams and immediately matched the young boy with a mathematics professor from the University of Michigan for private tutoring sessions to study undergraduate level linear algebra. According to his now mentor, Wu is already at the level of an exceptional undergraduate math major, and is scoring better on tests than almost all of the professor’s college students. There are brilliant technical minds like Wu across the world, and the internet is bringing these minds together, explains Khim. Brilliant.org is hoping to be the community where these individuals (both young and old) come together to challenge themselves, find like-minded talent, and find opportunities to use their skills. Khim says the inspiration for Brilliant came in the realization that the current model to find technical talent who will become leaders in science, medicine and technology is broken. In many countries, high school students are encouraged to focus on studying for one national exam, which will determine where they go to college. In university, these students are measured on rote learning skills which are irrelevant to how they will be using skills to solve real problems. “There is a mismatch between nurturing intellectual skills in top students vs. what they actually have to spend time on to be successful in the system,” she says. But unfortunately, she explains, there is no way to get noticed if you don’t succeed in this system. So Khim decided to create a place where these students can succeed and challenge themselves, and realize their true potential. She has enlisted a number of math professors, scientists and other technical minds to create difficult problems on the site. Brilliant features weekly olympiad-style challenges offer rigorous problem sets in math and physics. Users can not only solve problems but share your solutions and your process in solving the sets. In March of this year, Khim presented Brilliant at the Launch Festival and caught
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Backed By Social Plus Captial, Brilliant.org Is Finding And Challenging The Brightest, Technical Talent In The World
Pharrell Wu began doing math at age one and was trading stocks at age three. Living in the Philippines, Wu became bored with the math curriculum at his school and started Googling for hard math problems on the one computer his parents owned at home. He came upon Brilliant.org, a recently launched online community that challenges and brings together technical minds to colve math and analytics problems, and started completing problems. Brilliant’s founder Sue Khim saw that Wu was crushing college students in some of the math exams and immediately matched the young boy with a mathematics professor from the University of Michigan for private tutoring sessions to study undergraduate level linear algebra. According to his now mentor, Wu is already at the level of an exceptional undergraduate math major, and is scoring better on tests than almost all of the professor’s college students. There are brilliant technical minds like Wu across the world, and the internet is bringing these minds together, explains Khim. Brilliant.org is hoping to be the community where these individuals (both young and old) come together to challenge themselves, find like-minded talent, and find opportunities to use their skills. Khim says the inspiration for Brilliant came in the realization that the current model to find technical talent who will become leaders in science, medicine and technology is broken. In many countries, high school students are encouraged to focus on studying for one national exam, which will determine where they go to college. In university, these students are measured on rote learning skills which are irrelevant to how they will be using skills to solve real problems. “There is a mismatch between nurturing intellectual skills in top students vs. what they actually have to spend time on to be successful in the system,” she says. But unfortunately, she explains, there is no way to get noticed if you don’t succeed in this system. So Khim decided to create a place where these students can succeed and challenge themselves, and realize their true potential. She has enlisted a number of math professors, scientists and other technical minds to create difficult problems on the site. Brilliant features weekly olympiad-style challenges offer rigorous problem sets in math and physics. Users can not only solve problems but share your solutions and your process in solving the sets. In March of this year, Khim presented Brilliant at the Launch Festival and caughtOriginal Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/Z2MPAyIkj_0/
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