NASA looks at Pi in the Sky
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has crafted a stellar math challenge to show students of all ages how NASA scientists and engineers use the mathematical constant pi.
Car Odometer hits Pi on Pi Day
314,159 kilometers on 3-14!
Pi Day of the Century
The New York Times ponders last century’s epic Pi Day in 1915. Read about this century’s festivities.
Visualize Pi Kickstarter Project
Students from The Green School in East Williamsburg Brooklyn combine mathematics and art to VISUALIZE Pi as a mural in their community! Watch the video about the Visualize Pi project on Kickstarter.
Listen to how tasty this pie sounds
NPR discusses Pi Day and a tasty Mango Key Lime Pie, since we have an “equation for a party: March 14 = 3/14 = 3.14 = Pi Day”. Photo credit: Benny Mazur
The New Yorker: Why Pi Matters
“So it’s fair to ask: Why do mathematicians care so much about pi?” Read the excellent article by Steven Strogatz about infinity and more. Also in The New Yorker: Pi memorization and Pi in Cryptography.
Memorization Showdown
“A little friendly competition never hurt anyone, especially when it’s about something as beautiful as the infinite decimal places of pi.” from the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.
Pi Day Clock
The site time.is has created a special pi second of the century clock. Check it out as it highlights the digits in time as they match the digits of pi in your part of the world. If you want to see what time it is every day in terms of pi, this is the wall […]
A fugue on Pi
I absolutely love this fugue based on the first handful of digits of pi by Greg Ristow.