Vi Hart

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Vi Hart
Hart in 2012, sitting on top of a finished project
Hart in 2012, sitting on top of a finished project
Born
Victoria Hart

1988 (age 35–36)
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)YouTube personality, educator, inventor
Known forMathematical/musical YouTube videos
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2009–present
Genres
  • Education
  • Music
Subscribers1.44 million[1]
Total views155 million[1]
100,000 subscribers
1,000,000 subscribers
Last updated: 28 August 2023

Victoria "Vi" Hart (/ˈvaɪ hɑːrt, ˈviː hɑːrt/;[2] born 1988)[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]

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" they were not interested in playing. They said 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

Salon called "deliriously and delightfully profound".[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, Emily Eifler, and Andrea Hawksley founded the research group eleVR to research

Human Advancement Research Community (HARC) project[27], in which Hart was listed as a Principal Investigator.[28]

Hart is a Senior Research Project Manager at Microsoft.[29] As of 2021 they were a Director of Policy and Strategy in the Societal Resilience Group at Microsoft Research.[30]

References

  1. ^ a b "About Vihart". YouTube.
  2. ^ a b "FAQ". Vi Hart.com. Archived from the original on December 13, 2014. Retrieved December 12, 2014.
  3. ^ "Khan Academy's mathemusician Vi Hart brings dull lessons to life". Wired. Archived from the original on September 20, 2016. Retrieved January 27, 2016.
  4. ^ a b c Chang, Kenneth (January 17, 2011), "Bending and Stretching Classroom Lessons to Make Math Inspire", The New York Times.
  5. ^ Bell, Melissa (December 17, 2010), "Making math magic: Vi Hart doodles her lessons", The Washington Post.
  6. ^ Krulwich, Robert (December 16, 2010), I Hate Math! (Not After This, You Won't), NPR
  7. ^ "Weird geometry: Art enters the hyperbolic realm". New Scientist. Retrieved January 4, 2023.
  8. ^ "Parable of the Polygons". Parable of the Polygons. Retrieved January 4, 2023.
  9. ^ Vi Hart at DBLP Bibliography Server Edit this at Wikidata. Retrieved March 29, 2014.
  10. ^ "Reshaping the Universe: VR Landscapes Explore Mind-Bending Geometry". Live Science. March 29, 2017.
  11. ^ "Vi Hart and Matt Parker to Receive 2018 JPBM Communications Awards", News, Events and Announcements, American Mathematical Society, December 8, 2017
  12. ^ 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.
  13. ^ Hart, Vi (June 8, 2015). On Gender (Online video). YouTube.
  14. ^ "I Hate Math! (Not After This, You Won't)". NPR.org. Retrieved November 12, 2016.
  15. ^ Khan Academy (January 3, 2012), Announcement, retrieved January 7, 2018
  16. ^ Gans, Joshua (January 24, 2012). "Learning on Speed". Harvard Business Review. Retrieved January 8, 2018.
  17. ^ Leonard, Andrew (June 28, 2013). "The mad genius of Vi Hart". Salon. Retrieved January 8, 2018.
  18. ISBN 9781400873371
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  19. ^ "About Us". eleVR. Retrieved December 12, 2014.
  20. ^ a b Case, Nicky; Hart, Vi. "Parable of the Polygons". Retrieved December 12, 2014.
  21. ^ Bhatia, Aatish (December 8, 2014). "Empirical Zeal How Small Biases Lead to a Divided World: An Interactive Exploration of Racial Segregation". Wired.
  22. ^ "Introducing eleVR – Vi Hart". vihart.com. Archived from the original on May 23, 2022. Retrieved November 28, 2017.
  23. ^ Lawson-Perfect, Christian (July 31, 2015). "Hypernom". The Aperiodical. Retrieved April 5, 2016.
  24. Bibcode:2015arXiv150705707H
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  25. ^ "eleVR: the first web video player for virtual reality".
  26. ^ Farokhmanesh, Megan (December 11, 2014). "A visual guide to bias, as explained by adorable shapes". Polygon.
  27. ^ "eleVR leaving YCR – elevr". elevr.com.
  28. ^ Altman, Sam (May 11, 2016). "HARC". Y Combinator Blog. Retrieved June 20, 2016.
  29. ^ Allen, Danielle (April 21, 2020). "Roadmap to Pandemic Resilience" (PDF). Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics. Harvard University. Retrieved April 21, 2020.
  30. ^ "Opening remarks: Tech for resilient communities". Microsoft. October 20, 2021.

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