Celebrating Pi Day with Much More Than Pie
Celebrating Pi Day with Much More Than Pie Pi Day is an annual celebration of the mathematical constant, pi. It’s observed every year on March 14th, or 3/14, because those are the first few digits of pi. Look at Frank, the physicist. This is the guy who loves pi. He’s the original prince of Pi Day. This year for Pi Day, I wanted to do more than just tweet photos of our team here at the NGINX SF offices eating pie, so I googled the holiday and learned some pretty cool stuff. The earliest known celebration happened right here in San Francisco at the awesome playground of science, the Exploratorium. Founded in 1969 by the physicist Frank Oppenheimer, the Exploratorium was long housed at The Palace of Fine Arts, built during the 1915 World’s Fair. I bring this up because [ more… ]
