{"id":2275,"date":"2012-03-14T11:59:19","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T16:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/?p=2275"},"modified":"2023-08-06T13:01:36","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T18:01:36","slug":"celebrate-pi-day-belatedly-at-the-libraries-on-march-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/2012\/03\/14\/celebrate-pi-day-belatedly-at-the-libraries-on-march-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate Pi Day (belatedly) at the Libraries on March 19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Pi<\/em>, Greek letter, is the symbol for the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. <em>Pi<\/em> Day is celebrated by math enthusiasts around the world on March 14th. <em>Pi<\/em> = 3.1415926535\u2026. <em>Pi<\/em> is used in many different fields and can be seen in our everyday lives. It may be seen in art, structural design, body mobility, navigation, and&nbsp;probability. To celebrate the versatility of this number, the various campus libraries will celebrate at the same time, showing how <em>pi<\/em> is used in their subject areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Due to March 14th being during spring break, the celebration will take place next <strong>Monday, March 19th at 3:14 p.m<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Events will be held at the following libraries: Art, Pomerantz Business, Lichtenberger Engineering, Hardin, Main (near the Information Desk), Music, and Sciences. Join us at any of these locations to learn more about <em>pi<\/em> and have some apple pie bites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pi, Greek letter, is the symbol for the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Pi Day is celebrated by math enthusiasts around the world on March 14th. Pi = 3.1415926535\u2026. Pi is used in many different fields and can be seen in our everyday lives. It may be seen in art,<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/2012\/03\/14\/celebrate-pi-day-belatedly-at-the-libraries-on-march-19\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Celebrate Pi Day (belatedly) at the Libraries on March 19&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,23,24,7,8,14,22],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2275"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5990,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275\/revisions\/5990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2275"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=2275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}