Pi Day was first celebrated in 1988 at San Francisco's Exploratorium, a museum of science and technology that encourages visitors to be hands-on.
The holiday was founded by physicist Larry Shaw, who had been an employee of the museum for more than 15 years.
"He always sort of liked to combine crazy, fun ideas with science and math," she said. "It's a celebration and a coming together of everybody to enjoy something that is based in science but in a fun, educational way."Thus, Pi Day was born. During the first celebration, the Exploratorium's employees marched around one of the circular spaces of the museum because pi is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter.It took place at exactly 1:59 p.m.
Her parents told her that, several years after the first Pi Day, she was in elementary school when she realized March 14 is also Albert Einstein's birthday. Pi Day has become an annual tradition at the Exploratorium, and the staff has carried on even after Shaw died in 2017. Scientists knew for centuries that, regardless of the size of a circle, the circumference and diameter always had the same exact ratio but were unsure of how to calculate it.
But pi has significance outside of mathematics. It's been used to help calculate the orbit of planets in the solar system and examine how ripples in rivers carry energy.Sharkland said in addition to the parade, food and music, the museum has invited a math artist named John Sims to be in residency at the museum to curate poetry for Pi Day and other works of art. Sims' artwork will be on display at the museum through March 31.
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