Mathematics News

You may not know this but March 14 is National Pi Day, which celebrates the mathematical constant - approximately 3.14159 - so crucial to trigonometry and geometry.

Happy Pi Day! Every year on March 14, we celebrate that numerical oddball and mathematical constant otherwise known as 3.14159... Except, we don't, because unless you run in very specific circles, you probably haven't utilized pi since your tenth-grade trigonometry final.

The number pi = 3.14159265358979323846... is arguably the only mathematical topic from very early history that is still being researched today.

National Pi Day honors the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. The date, March 14, matches the first three numbers of pi: 3.14.

March 14 is a great day to be a geek. That's because it's Pi Day , the one day of the year when it's super cool to be a math wiz.

The decimal expansion of . Archimedes observed that polygons drawn inside and outside a circle would have perimeters somewhat close to the circumference of the circle.

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BEGUN in 1988, and officially designated by the U.S. House of Representatives in 2009, March 14 - 3/14 - has been celebrated as Pi Day around the world.

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