A quant finance learning platform.

21IFM is a quant finance learning platform, with mathematics, machine learning and AI as your toolkit. Explore visual simulations, read formulas aloud and learn with Zon and Coach.

Built for quant analysts, software developers and data scientists, investment professionals and active traders, and students, researchers and career-changers.

Start with the 2 minute 38 second approach video. Predict, explore, say it aloud, picture it and write it by hand. Find your audience and browse the learning paths next.

Created by Pavan Mirla, quant analyst and AI consultant to hedge funds, with experience leading a buy-side AI innovation lab.

Browse the learning paths at your own pace. The planned Quant Finance Bootcamp is a live offering built on the platform, with problem-solving, discussion, feedback and interview practice.

Founding-cohort dates, size, pricing and final time commitment will be announced to the waitlist first. Joining is free and requires no payment.

Explore next

• Quant Finance Bootcamp — explore and join the waitlist
• Our approach and the story behind 21IFM
• Follow @21ifm on X
• Basics Mathematics: free mini lessons
• What does sine actually mean?
• Same kick. How far?
• Premium lesson: Curves + Wiggles — Itô’s extra term
• Premium AI lesson preview: Backpropagation with real numbers
• Machine Learning: the logistic regression series
• Transformers: the big picture and its foundations
• Variational autoencoders: learn with Zon and Coach
• AI essentials: Gaussian foundations for the VAE
• Essential foundations: entropy and cross-entropy
• ML and AI essentials: Priors and Bayes
• Options strategies: OP101–OP113 with Zon and Coach
• Explore all lessons — search the connected library
• Watch How 21IFM builds understanding

Stories, illustrations, and interactive mini lessons. Ask a question.