George W. Hart

American sculptor and geometer (born 1955), known for intricate polyhedral sculpture and for bridging academic mathematics and geometric art; a former electrical-engineering professor and co-founder of the Museum of Mathematics.

Hart's work joins rigorous geometry with artistic form, producing sculptures built from interlocking polyhedral parts and extensive expository writing on polyhedra. He taught at Columbia and Stony Brook and helped found MoMath in New York; he is also the father of mathematics popularizer Vi Hart.

Role in Fuller's orbit

Hart is a contemporary inheritor of the polyhedral-geometry tradition central to Fuller — the tetrahedron, octahedron, icosahedron, and their symmetries realized as physical objects. He is not a personal associate but a present-day exemplar of the "geometry made tangible" impulse that Fuller shared, connecting to the corpus's polytope and geometric-model materials.

See Also

• Regular Polytopes (Regular Polytopes) — the systematic geometry of the polyhedra Hart sculpts
• Introduction to Geometry (Introduction to Geometry) — classical foundation of the polyhedral tradition he continues

Sources

• George W. Hart (source reference) — Zotero People collection (Wikipedia entry)