In his own work, Castillo-Chavez uses pi to try to understand why certain strains of influenza seem to reappear every 20 years. In math, he says, pi pops up in the most unexpected places.

Employees work a busy bakery kitchen at Michele's Pies, Wednesday, March 13, 2024, in Norwalk, Conn. Math enthusiasts and bakers celebrate Pi Day on March 14 or 3/14, the first three digits of a ...

2. Make some Pi Day art: Teachers can organize a Pi Day art contest for students to celebrate the occasion. The contest can include pi-inspired dice, paper chairs and card games. 3.

And so she showed me the true essence of math at home, so that when I was bored by having to do timetables and answer questions at school, I knew that there was more to math than that," she remembers.

March 14—aka Pi Day—isn’t just for math nerds. It’s the one day a year where we celebrate the magic of the number π (pi), which starts at 3.14 and goes on forever.

A version of this article is republished from The Conversation via a Creative Commons license. March 14 is celebrated as Pi Day because the date, when written as 3/14, matches the start of the decimal ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Math enthusiasts around the world, from college students to rocket scientists, celebrate Pi Day, which is March 14 or 3/14 — the first three digits of an infinite ...

Math enthusiasts around the world, from college kids to rocket scientists, celebrate Pi Day on Thursday, which is March 14 or 3/14 — the first three digits of an infinite number with many ...