Vi Hart
Vi Hart | |
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Born | Victoria Hart 1988 (age 35–36)[1][2] |
Nationality | American |
Occupation(s) | Youtube Personality, Educator, Inventor |
Known for | Mathematical/musical YouTube videos |
Website | www |
Victoria Hart (born 1988), commonly known as Vi Hart (/ˈvaɪ hɑːrt, 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
- ^ "Khan Academy's mathemusician Vi Hart brings dull lessons to life". Wired. Retrieved January 27, 2016.
- ^ "Mathematical artist: Why hyperbolic space is awesome". New Scientist. Retrieved January 27, 2016.
- ^ a b "FAQ". Vi Hart.com. Retrieved December 12, 2014.
- ^ a b c 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
- ^ Vi Hart at DBLP Bibliography Server . Retrieved March 29, 2014.
- ^ "Reshaping the Universe: VR Landscapes Explore Mind-Bending Geometry".
- ^ "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) – via Twitter.
- ^ "What It Means To Call Ourselves Non-Binary: An Autostraddle Roundtable". Autostraddle. December 28, 2017. Retrieved January 7, 2018.
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(help) - ^ "About Vi Hart". Shorty Awards. 2016.
- ^ "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.
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(help) - ^ 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.
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(help) - ^ a b 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.
External links
- Official website
- Vi Hart's channel on YouTube
- Vi Hart's second's channel on YouTube
- Vi Hart at Khan Academy