Vi Hart

Victoria Hart, commonly known as Vi Hart, ( or ) is a self-described "recreational mathemusician" who is most known for creating mathematical videos on YouTube.

Hart is the child of mathematical sculptor George W. Hart, and was educated at Stony Brook University. As well as producing mathematical videos, Hart has co-authored several research papers on computational geometry and the mathematics of paper folding.

Hart was previously supported by Khan Academy making videos for the educational site as their "Resident Mathemusician". Currently, Hart works in a research group called eleVR creating virtual reality videos, and in the past has also collaborated on educational computer games. One of these projects is Hypernom, a game where the player has to eat part of 4 dimensional polytopes which are stereographically projected into 3D and viewed using a virtual reality headset.

Hart identifies as gender agnostic. Hart is a Principal Investigator at the Human Advancement Research Community (HARC).

Some of Hart's videos in 2016 covered political topics like the shooting of Christina Grimmie and Black Lives Matter.

Hart has been featured in The New York Times and National Public Radio.