Now for the important part. Today, as you may know, is Pi Day. Why today? Because it’s March 14—yes, 3/14—and 3.14 is the value of pi to two decimals. Of course, the actual number continues to an ...

One of my favorite holidays is Pi Day. On March 14, people who love the math constant called pi celebrate by eating the other kind of pie. Like apple pie, pumpkin pie and even pizza pie. I talked ...

For geeks, there are several great holidays on the calendar. There is of course Mole Day (10/23) to commemorate Avogadro's number, which is huge (on the order of 10 23) and hugely important in physics ...