Vi Hart

Vi Hart
Hart while attending Stony Brook University, sitting on top of a finished project
Born Victoria Hart
1988 (age 29–30)[1][2]
Nationality American
Occupation Youtube Personality, Educator, Inventor
Known for Mathematical/musical YouTube videos
Website www.vihart.com

Victoria Hart (born 1988), commonly known as Vi Hart, (/ˈvaɪ hɑːrt/ or /ˈviː hɑːrt/)[3], is a self-described "recreational mathemusician" who is well known for creating mathematical videos on YouTube.[4][5][6] Hart founded the virtual reality research group eleVR and has co-authored several research papers on computational geometry and the mathematics of paper folding.[7][8]

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".[9]

Biography

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".[10][11][12]

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 dimension — grew popular, Hart was featured in The New York Times and on National Public Radio,[4][13] eventually gaining the support of the Khan Academy and making videos for the educational site as their "Resident Mathemusician".[14][15] Many of Hart's videos combined mathematics and music, such as "Twelve tones", which was called "deliriously and delightfully profound" by Salon.[16]

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.[17]

In 2014, Hart founded a research group called eleVR, with Emily Eifler and Andrea Hawksley, to research virtual reality (VR). They created VR videos, and had also collaborated on educational computer games.[18][19][20][3][21] 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.[22][23] In June, the group released an open source web video player that worked with the Oculus Rift.[24] 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.[19][25] In May 2016, eleVR joined Y Combinator Research (YCR) as part of the Human Advancement Research Community (HARC) project.[26] Hart was listed as a Principal Investigator.[27]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Khan Academy's mathemusician Vi Hart brings dull lessons to life". Wired. Retrieved January 27, 2016.
  2. ↑ "Mathematical artist: Why hyperbolic space is awesome". New Scientist. Retrieved January 27, 2016.
  3. 1 2 "FAQ". Vi Hart.com. Retrieved December 12, 2014.
  4. 1 2 3 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. ↑ Vi Hart at DBLP Bibliography Server Edit this at Wikidata. Retrieved March 29, 2014.
  8. ↑ "Reshaping the Universe: VR Landscapes Explore Mind-Bending Geometry".
  9. ↑ "Vi Hart and Matt Parker to Receive 2018 JPBM Communications Awards", News, Events and Announcements, American Mathematical Society, December 8, 2017
  10. ↑ 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) – via Twitter.
  11. ↑ "What It Means To Call Ourselves Non-Binary: An Autostraddle Roundtable". Autostraddle. 2017-12-28. Retrieved 2018-01-07.
  12. ↑ "About Vi Hart". Shorty Awards. 2016.
  13. ↑ "I Hate Math! (Not After This, You Won't)". NPR.org. Retrieved 2016-11-12.
  14. ↑ Khan Academy (2012-01-03), Announcement, retrieved 2018-01-07
  15. ↑ Gans, Joshua (2012-01-24). "Learning on Speed". Harvard Business Review. Retrieved 2018-01-08.
  16. ↑ Leonard, Andrew (2013-06-28). "The mad genius of Vi Hart". Salon. Retrieved 2018-01-08.
  17. ↑ Hart, Vi; Segerman, Henry (2016-01-12). "The Quaternion Group as a Symmetry Group". In Pitici, Mircea. The Best Writing on Mathematics 2015. Princeton University Press. pp. 141–153. arXiv:1404.6596. Bibcode:2014arXiv1404.6596H. ISBN 9781400873371.
  18. ↑ "About Us". eleVR. Retrieved December 12, 2014.
  19. 1 2 Case, Nicky; Hart, Vi. "Parable of the Polygons". Retrieved December 12, 2014.
  20. ↑ Bhatia, Aatish (December 8, 2014). "Empirical Zeal How Small Biases Lead to a Divided World: An Interactive Exploration of Racial Segregation". Wired.
  21. ↑ "Introducing eleVR – Vi Hart". vihart.com.
  22. ↑ Lawson-Perfect, Christian (July 31, 2015). "Hypernom". The Aperiodical. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  23. ↑ Hart, Vi; Hawksley, Andrea; Segerman, Henry; Bosch, Marc ten (2015-07-21). "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.
  24. ↑ "eleVR: the first web video player for virtual reality".
  25. ↑ Farokhmanesh, Megan (December 11, 2014). "A visual guide to bias, as explained by adorable shapes". Polygon.
  26. ↑ "eleVR leaving YCR – elevr". elevr.com.
  27. ↑ Altman, Sam (May 11, 2016). "HARC". Y Combinator Blog. Retrieved 20 June 2016.
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