{"id":3154,"date":"2023-03-14T14:30:54","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T14:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/library\/?p=3154"},"modified":"2023-03-08T14:40:47","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T14:40:47","slug":"pi-anyone-international-pi-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/library\/2023\/03\/14\/pi-anyone-international-pi-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Pi Anyone? International Pi Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\">Pi Anyone? International Pi Day<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>The 14<sup>th<\/sup> of March is International Day of Mathematics and International Pi Day.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong><u>What is International Mathematics Day?<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>On the 26<sup>th<\/sup> of November 2019 UNESCO\u00a0(United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation) decided March the 14<sup>th<\/sup> should be declared the International Day of Mathematics.<\/p>\n<p>The main purpose of the day was to celebrate and highlight the importance of Mathematics. Making people aware mathematics is everywhere and used in everyday life, as well as in specialist industries.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the birth of International Mathematics Day, the 14<sup>th<\/sup> of March was International Pi Day.<!--more--><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong><u>What is Pi \u03c0 day?<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The Greek symbol \u03c0 Pi was first used by the Welsh mathematician William Jones (image to right) to represent the following mathematical constant:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cthe quantity which when the diameter is multiplied by it, yields the circumference\u201d.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Prior to the use of \u03c0 as a shorthand representation for the above statement.<\/p>\n<p>Textbooks and people in conversation would recite the statement in its entirety, which often became cumbersome. So it was, William Jones\u2019s idea was adopted and popularised by the Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler.<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong><u>Why 14<sup>th<\/sup> March for Pi &amp; International Mathematics Day?<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Pi \u03c0 day was first celebrated in 1988 by the Physicist Larry Shaw, at San Francisco\u2019s Exploratorium science museum, and as some of you may have already guessed, the day selected was a play on the first 3 numbers of Pi which are 3.14.<\/p>\n<p>As there was already a day in the calendar celebrating a mathematics-related topic, UNESCO decided Pi day should be expanded to include the celebration of the entire spectrum of mathematics, giving birth to International Mathematics Day.<\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong><u>Just for fun<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>Can you think of times when you would use mathematics? perhaps leave a comment on two examples that are different to any previously left. Or leave a fun fact about Pi.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll start:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Two examples of using maths:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When finding and shelving books in a library (Dewey Decimal System)<\/li>\n<li>When booking and finding my seat in the Cinema or Theatre.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Fun fact about Pi:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The value of Pi has been memorised to 70,000 places by Rajveer Meena at the VIT University, Vellore, India, on 21 March 2015. It took him almost 10hrs to recite the numbers whilst wearing a blindfold.<\/p>\n<p>By Mo Almas<\/p>\n<p>Access some of our many resources on mathematics using our library catalogue: <a href=\"http:\/\/librarysearch.napier.ac.uk\">Librarysearch<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more informative articles on the Blog such as <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/library\/2022\/07\/25\/edinburghs-first-commonwealth-games\/\">The history of the commonwealth games in Edinburgh<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Image Source can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/illustrations\/math-education-chalkboard-1500720\/\">here\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pi Anyone? International Pi Day The 14th of March is International Day of Mathematics and International Pi Day. What is International Mathematics Day? On the 26th of November 2019 UNESCO\u00a0(United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation) decided March the 14th should be declared the International Day of Mathematics. 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