Pi Day is today, March 14, and any day that combines fun, education, and pie is a day worth celebrating! Pi, also known by the Greek letter “π,” is a constant value used in math that represents the ratio of a circumference of a circle to its diameter, which is just about 3.14….15…9265359… (and so on). Not only that, but the fourteenth of March is also Albert Einstein’s birthday, so all together it’s nothing short of a mathematician’s delight.
A PIECE of Pi History
The unique holiday is one that is discussed by math teachers in schools across the country and bakeries and grocery stores often sell pies at a discount that day.
Pi Day was first celebrated in 1988 at San Francisco's Exploratorium, a museum of science and technology that encourages visitors to be hands-on.
The holiday was founded by physicist Larry Shaw, who had been an employee of the museum for more than 15 years.
His daughter, Sara Shaw, told ABC News her father was at a weekend work retreat when he came up with the idea to link March 14 with pi's first three digits.
"He always sort of liked to combine crazy, fun ideas with science and math," she said. "It's a celebration and a coming together of everybody to enjoy something that is based in science but in a fun, educational way."
Sara Shaw added, "It's both fun and science, and those things are not mutually exclusive."
Thus, Pi Day was born. During the first celebration, the Exploratorium's employees marched around one of the circular spaces of the museum because pi is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter.
So come out to this pie joint to celebrate and also get your 2025 Pi-Day souvenir.
Have some pi, or pie, or no pi/pie at all and visit with the rest of us
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