Pie for Pi Day

Happy Pi Day! The Math Department will be serving slices of pie and accepting donations for the Math Excellence Fund in the Library entryway.

Fun fact about Pi: Pi wasn’t always known as pi. Before the 1700s, people referred to the number we know as pi as “the quantity which when the diameter is multiplied by it, yields the circumference”. Not surprisingly, people got tired of saying so much whenever they wanted to talk about Pi. The Welsh mathematician William Jones, a friend of Sir Isaac Newton, began using the symbol for pi in 1706.