Vi Hart
Also known as Victoria Hart
Self-described "mathemusician" whose doodling-in-math-class videos popularised maths; founded eleVR.
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- Vi Hart is an American mathematician and video maker who describes themself as a "recreational mathemusician".
- Their videos about doodling in math class, from 2010, made them known, and Khan Academy took them on as its "Resident Mathemusician".
- In 2014 they co-founded the virtual reality research group eleVR, which joined Y Combinator Research's HARC in 2016, and made Parable of the Polygons with Nicky Case.
- They later worked at Microsoft until 2022, and deleted their YouTube channel in 2025; the videos remain on Vimeo.
Key facts
- Born
- 19881
- Education
- Degree in music, Stony Brook University; child of the mathematical sculptor George W. Hart1
- Videos
- A series about doodling in math class from 2010; Khan Academy's "Resident Mathemusician"; Twelve Tones1
- eleVR
- Founded the virtual reality research group in 2014 with M Eilo and Andrea Hawksley; it joined Y Combinator Research's HARC in May 2016, with Hart as a principal investigator1
- Parable of the Polygons
- Playable post with Nicky Case (2014), based on Thomas Schelling's models of segregation1
- Microsoft
- Senior research project manager and director of policy and strategy in the Societal Resilience Group; left Microsoft and the technology industry in 20221
- Award
- 2018 Communications Award of the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics, with Matt Parker1
- YouTube
- Deleted the channel, about 1.5 million subscribers, in 2025; the videos remain on Vimeo1
Roles
Before
Part of until 2022
Microsoft (senior research project manager and director of policy and strategy, Societal Resilience Group) source on Microsoft
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