Sarah B. Hart

Sarah B. Hart is a British mathematician specialising in group theory. She is a former professor of mathematics at Birkbeck, University of London where she was the Head of Mathematics and Statistics until 2022.

Sarah B. Hart
OccupationMathematician
Academic background
EducationProfessor
Alma materBalliol College
Academic work
DisciplineMathematics
InstitutionsGresham College

As of 2025, she is the Acting Provost of Gresham College. She was previously the Gresham Professor of Geometry from 2020 to 2024, the first woman to hold this position "since the chair was established in 1597".

Hart is a keen expositor of mathematics: she has written about the mathematics of Moby-Dick, and her work has been featured in websites like 'Theorem of the Day'.