George Hart

He is the father of mathematics popularizer and YouTuber Vi Hart and a co-founder of MoMath, in New York City.

• Name — George W. Hart • Birth Name — George William Hart • Born — 1955 • Occupation — Geometer • Website — http: www.georgehart.com/ • Thesis Title — Minimum information estimation of structure • Thesis Year — 1987 • Workplaces — Columbia University SUNY Stony Brook • Thesis Url — http: dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/14792 • Doctoral Advisor — Fred C. Schweppe and John N. Tsitsiklis • Children — 3, including Vi

Hart received a B.S. in mathematics from MIT (1977), an M.A. in linguistics from Indiana University (1979), and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT (1987). His academic work includes the online publication Encyclopedia of Polyhedra, the textbook Multidimensional Analysis, and the instruction book Zome Geometry. He has also published over sixty academic articles. His artistic work includes sculpture, computer images, toys (e.g. Zome) and puzzles. He worked with John H. Conway to promote and standardize the Conway polyhedron notation.

Hart is a coinventor on two US patents, Digital ac monitor and Non-intrusive appliance monitor apparatus. These patents cover, in part, an improved electrical meter for homes called nonintrusive load monitors. These meters track changes in voltage and current usage by a given household and then deduce which appliances are using how much electricity and when.

Hart is a co-founder of North America's only Museum of Mathematics—MoMath in New York City. As chief of content, he set the "Math is Cool!" tone of the museum and spent five years designing original exhibits and workshop activities for it.

• Illustration — 3D print of a Sierpinski tetrahedron, made of nylon (polyamide) by G.W. Hart • Illustration — Truncated icosahedron (or soccer ball shape), cherry, about 14 inches in diameter, by G.W. Hart • Illustration — Wooden hanging installation in the Barus-Holley building at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.