{"id":10146,"date":"2023-03-08T12:00:48","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T18:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/?p=10146"},"modified":"2023-08-04T10:31:30","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T15:31:30","slug":"pi-day-celebration-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/pi-day-celebration-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Pi Day Celebration Tomorrow!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2023\/03\/Untitled-design-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2023\/03\/Untitled-design-1-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2023\/03\/Untitled-design-1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2023\/03\/Untitled-design-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2023\/03\/Untitled-design-1.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>We love Pi Day! Traditionally Pi Day is celebrated on March 14 (3\/14), but since the students are on Spring Break that day, we&#8217;re celebrating a week early. Stop by the Engineering Library to get a FREE apple pie bite made by a local bakery while supplies last.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are a few pi facts to get you excited for our favorite holiday:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol>\n<li>Because the exact value of pi can never be calculated, we can never find the exact area or circumference of a circle.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Albert Einstein was born on March 14th, 1879, but Pi Day was not celebrated until over 100 years later in 1988.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Welsh mathematician William Jones was the first person to use the symbol for pi but it was popularized by Leonhard Euler (known for Euler&#8217;s number)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you have a fun pi fact? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UIEngLib\">Tweet it to us<\/a>, we&#8217;d love to hear it!&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We love Pi Day! Traditionally Pi Day is celebrated on March 14 (3\/14), but since the students are on Spring Break that day, we&#8217;re celebrating a week early. Stop by the Engineering Library to get a FREE apple pie bite made by a local bakery while supplies last.&nbsp; Here are a few pi facts to<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/pi-day-celebration-tomorrow\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Pi Day Celebration Tomorrow!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":309,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10146"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/309"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10146"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10213,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10146\/revisions\/10213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10146"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=10146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}