Pi Day
Latest Updates Pi Day:-Pi Day is a big deal. Last year, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution supporting the math day and encouraging schools to teach kids about the number, according to CNN. It’s so tricky because it’s an irrational number, meaning it never ends or repeats. The only way to find out the next number in the decimal, is to find the number before it.Pi is a Greek letter and the symbol for the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, according to the Pi Day Web site . The symbol was first used in 1706 by William Jones. It became popular after the symbol was adopted in 1737 by the Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler, according to the site.
So, what’s the holiday all about? It’s “celebrated” on March 14 because 3.14 are the first digits of the irrational number pi, according to Town Topics , a weekly newspaper in Princeton, N.J.
March 14 is also Albert Einstein’s birthday, and Princeton, where he died in 1955, makes the most of the two noted events, according to Town Topics .
Local merchants on Princeton Pi Day offer discounts and various events in their stores, and there’s special programming at the public library, among other activities, the newspaper reported.
The first celebration of Pi Day was at the San Francisco Exploratorium in 1988. During the festivities members of the staff and public marched around one of the facility’s circular spaces then ate fruit pies, according to The Sacramento Bee . The event is the brainchild of retired physicist Larry Shaw, The Bee reports.
San Francisco’s Exploratorium will celebrate its 22nd Pi Day this Sunday with terrible Pi puns, Pi-inspired antics and activities, and by consuming pie, according to the Exploratorium Web site .
