{"id":17631,"date":"2016-03-14T13:50:11","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T18:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=17631"},"modified":"2016-03-14T13:52:26","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T18:52:26","slug":"celebrate-pi-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/17631","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate Pi Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 14 is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.piday.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pi Day<\/a> (Greek letter p or \u201c\u03c0\u201d)! That&#8217;s as good a reason to celebrate as anything else, but even better: It&#8217;s also Albert Einstein&#8217;s birthday! <\/p>\n<p>Harken back to your geometry and remember that pi is the ratio of a circle&#8217;s circumference to its diameter (3.14&#8230;), which is always the same for every circle! We&#8217;ve know this for thousands of years. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.exploratorium.edu\/pi\/history_of_pi\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">A brief history of pi<\/a> is provided by the Exploratorium in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/numberpi.jpg\" alt=\"cover of The Number Pi book\" class=\"alignright\" \/>Want more pi? Andersen Library can help you learn more with books like <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=qZcCSskdtwcC&#038;source=gbs_navlinks_s\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The number [pi]<\/em><\/a> (3rd-floor Main Collection, QA484 .E9613 2004), <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=PpwBHkxL64kC&#038;dq=pi+a+biography+of+the+world%27s+most&#038;source=gbs_navlinks_s\" target=\"_blank\"><em> [Pi]: A biography of the world&#8217;s most mysterious number<\/em><\/a> (3rd-floor Main Collection, QA484 .P67 2004), and <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=MMMPBwAAQBAJ&#038;dq=pi+unleashed&#038;source=gbs_navlinks_s\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Pi-unleashed<\/em><\/a> (3rd-floor Main Collection, QA484 .A7513 2001), or articles such as &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.maa.org\/sites\/default\/files\/pdf\/pubs\/amm_supplements\/15-PI122AMM_Lead_Pi_Paper.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">I prefer pi: A brief history and anthology of articles in the <em>American Mathematical Monthly<\/em><\/a>&#8221; (a 2015 article available online from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maa.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mathematical Association of America<\/a>). Wow!<\/p>\n<p>Or, you could always celebrate with some pie or some discounts provided in honor of pi today (see, for example, some suggestions collected by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/tech\/tech-news\/it-s-pi-day-indulge-your-inner-nerd-get-free-n537906\" target=\"_blank\">NBC News<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 14 is Pi Day (Greek letter p or \u201c\u03c0\u201d)! That&#8217;s as good a reason to celebrate as anything else, but even better: It&#8217;s also Albert Einstein&#8217;s birthday! Harken back to your geometry and remember that pi is the ratio &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/17631\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[875,141,178,110687,110688,110686,658],"class_list":["post-17631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-world","tag-anniversaries","tag-articles","tag-books","tag-geometry","tag-mathematical-constants","tag-pi","tag-web-sites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17631"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17635,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17631\/revisions\/17635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}