Pi Day


By Anne Strainchamps | March 14, 2011

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People who like math and also enjoy eating pie are celebrating today, because it’s Pi Day — a holiday commemorating the mathematical constant symbolized by the Greek letter “pi”. The number’s first three digits are three-point-one-four, which is why it’s celebrated on March 14th. As you probably learned in school, pi is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. U.W. Madison math professor Jordan Ellenberg has these thoughts on what makes pi worth celebrating.

Anne Strainchamps

Anne Strainchamps

Anne Strainchamps is the host of TTBOOK.  She co-founded the show, along with Steve Paulson and Jim Fleming, and has been a featured interviewer on the program for more than a decade.   
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