Today is March 14. Aside from being Albert Einstein’s birthday, this specific date is known for another mathematically-relevant reason: it’s pi day.
Yes, pi! The number with infinitely-repeating decimals that represents the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter... and that also had every middle school know-it-all in a chokehold. Forever ringing in my ears will be the smugness with which Kevin Hardesty (not his real name) chanted “THREE point ONE FOUR ONE FIVE NINE TWO SIX...” and didn’t stop for nearly a minute. It felt like hours.
For those of us who didn’t bother to remember the first handful of digits, pi day may mean a little less.