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Tag: Pi: A Biography of the World’s Most Mysterious Number

Posted on March 14, 2016May 30, 2017

Happy Pi Day Reading (and Eating)

Pies for Pi Day

Saturday, March 14 is Pi Day, set aside to celebrate 3.14 (see what they did there?), also known as ‘pi’, also known as everyone’s favorite irrational, transcendental number, which has absorbed mathematicians and us regular folks going back at least to the third century BC. Continue reading “Happy Pi Day Reading (and Eating)”

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