Vi Hart
Victoria Hart (born 1988),[2] commonly known as Vi Hart (/ˈvaɪ hɑːrt, ˈviː hɑːrt/),[3] is an American mathematician and YouTuber. They describe themself as a "recreational mathemusician" and are well-known for creating mathematical videos on YouTube[4][5][6] and popularizing mathematics.[7][8] Hart founded the virtual reality research group eleVR and has co-authored several research papers on computational geometry and the mathematics of paper folding.[9][10]
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![]() Hart in 2012, sitting on top of a finished project | ||||||||||
Born | Victoria Hart 1988 (age 34–35) | |||||||||
Nationality | American | |||||||||
Occupation(s) | YouTube personality, educator, inventor | |||||||||
Known for | Mathematical/musical YouTube videos | |||||||||
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Years active | 2009–present | |||||||||
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Subscribers | 1.42 million[1] | |||||||||
Total views | 141 million[1] | |||||||||
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Last updated: 12 Jul 2022 | ||||||||||
Website | www |
Together with another YouTube mathematics popularizer, Matt Parker, Hart won the 2018 Communications Award of the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics for "entertaining, thought-provoking mathematics and music videos on YouTube that explain mathematical concepts through doodles".[11]
Early life and education
Hart is the child of mathematical sculptor George W. Hart, and received a degree in music at Stony Brook University.[4] Hart identifies as "gender agnostic";[12] in a video released in 2015, they spoke about their lack of gender identity—including lacking non-binary identities such as agender—and their attitude to gendered terms such as pronouns as a "linguistic game" that they were not interested in playing. They indicated that they have no preference and do not care which pronouns they are called by.[13]
Career
Hart's career as a mathematics popularizer began in 2010 with a video series about "doodling in math class". After these recreational mathematics videos — which introduced topics like fractal dimensions — grew popular, they were featured in The New York Times and on National Public Radio,[4][14] eventually gaining the support of the Khan Academy and making videos for the educational site as their "Resident Mathemusician".[15][16] Many of Hart's videos combined mathematics and music, such as "Twelve tones", which was called "deliriously and delightfully profound" by Salon.[17]
Together with Henry Segerman, Hart wrote "The Quaternion Group as a Symmetry Group", which was included in the anthology The Best Writing on Mathematics 2015.[18]
In 2014, Hart founded a research group called eleVR, with Emily Eifler and Andrea Hawksley, to research virtual reality (VR). The group created VR videos, and had also collaborated on educational computer games.[19][20][21][3][22] They created the game Hypernom, where the player has to eat part of 4 dimensional polytopes which are stereographically projected into 3D and viewed using a virtual reality headset.[23][24] In June, eleVR released an open source web video player that worked with the Oculus Rift.[25] In the same year Hart created the playable blog post Parable of the Polygons with Nicky Case. The game was based on economist Thomas Schelling's Dynamic Models of Segregation.[20][26] In May 2016, eleVR joined Y Combinator Research (YCR) as part of the Human Advancement Research Community (HARC) project[27], in which Hart was listed as a Principal Investigator.[28]
As of 2020, Hart is a Senior Research Project Manager at Microsoft.[29]
See also
References
- "About Vihart". YouTube.
- "Khan Academy's mathemusician Vi Hart brings dull lessons to life". Wired. Retrieved January 27, 2016.
- "FAQ". Vi Hart.com. Retrieved December 12, 2014.
- Chang, Kenneth (January 17, 2011), "Bending and Stretching Classroom Lessons to Make Math Inspire", The New York Times.
- Bell, Melissa (December 17, 2010), "Making math magic: Vi Hart doodles her lessons", The Washington Post.
- Krulwich, Robert (December 16, 2010), I Hate Math! (Not After This, You Won't), NPR
- "Weird geometry: Art enters the hyperbolic realm". New Scientist. Retrieved January 4, 2023.
- "Parable of the Polygons". Parable of the Polygons. Retrieved January 4, 2023.
- Vi Hart at DBLP Bibliography Server . Retrieved March 29, 2014.
- "Reshaping the Universe: VR Landscapes Explore Mind-Bending Geometry". Live Science. March 29, 2017.
- "Vi Hart and Matt Parker to Receive 2018 JPBM Communications Awards", News, Events and Announcements, American Mathematical Society, December 8, 2017
- Hart, Vi [@vihartvihart] (April 30, 2014). "Fun fact: I consider myself gender agnostic. "Person," not "Woman," please. I respect your religion, but don't like having it pushed on me" (Tweet). Archived from the original on March 5, 2016 – via Twitter.
- Hart, Vi (June 8, 2015). On Gender (Online video). YouTube.
- "I Hate Math! (Not After This, You Won't)". NPR.org. Retrieved November 12, 2016.
- Khan Academy (January 3, 2012), Announcement, retrieved January 7, 2018
- Gans, Joshua (January 24, 2012). "Learning on Speed". Harvard Business Review. Retrieved January 8, 2018.
- Leonard, Andrew (June 28, 2013). "The mad genius of Vi Hart". Salon. Retrieved January 8, 2018.
- Hart, Vi; Segerman, Henry (January 12, 2016). "The Quaternion Group as a Symmetry Group". In Pitici, Mircea (ed.). The Best Writing on Mathematics 2015. Princeton University Press. pp. 141–153. arXiv:1404.6596. Bibcode:2014arXiv1404.6596H. ISBN 9781400873371.
- "About Us". eleVR. Retrieved December 12, 2014.
- Case, Nicky; Hart, Vi. "Parable of the Polygons". Retrieved December 12, 2014.
- Bhatia, Aatish (December 8, 2014). "Empirical Zeal How Small Biases Lead to a Divided World: An Interactive Exploration of Racial Segregation". Wired.
- "Introducing eleVR – Vi Hart". vihart.com.
- Lawson-Perfect, Christian (July 31, 2015). "Hypernom". The Aperiodical. Retrieved April 5, 2016.
- Hart, Vi; Hawksley, Andrea; Segerman, Henry; Bosch, Marc ten (July 21, 2015). "Hypernom: Mapping VR Headset Orientation to S^3". Proceedings of Bridges 2015: Mathematics, Music, Art, Architecture, Culture. pp. 387–390. arXiv:1507.05707. Bibcode:2015arXiv150705707H.
- "eleVR: the first web video player for virtual reality".
- Farokhmanesh, Megan (December 11, 2014). "A visual guide to bias, as explained by adorable shapes". Polygon.
- "eleVR leaving YCR – elevr". elevr.com.
- Altman, Sam (May 11, 2016). "HARC". Y Combinator Blog. Retrieved June 20, 2016.
- Allen, Danielle (April 21, 2020). "Roadmap to Pandemic Resilience" (PDF). Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics. Harvard University. Retrieved April 21, 2020.
External links

- Official website
- Vi Hart's channel on YouTube
- Vi Hart's second's channel on YouTube
- "Vi Hart". Khan Academy. Archived from the original on January 28, 2016.
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