{"id":22658,"date":"2013-03-20T10:00:52","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T14:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mathgradblog.williams.edu\/?p=22658"},"modified":"2014-07-15T15:03:34","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T20:03:34","slug":"pi-day-math-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/2013\/03\/20\/pi-day-math-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"Pi Day and Other Math Holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/files\/2013\/03\/pi-day-300x225.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-22724\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/files\/2013\/03\/pi-day-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"pi-day-300x225\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>In honor of Pi Day being last week, I thought it would be fun to take a look at days of mathematical note. First, did you know that Pi Day (3\/14) is also the birthday of renowned physicist Albert Einstein? Other mathematical holidays and observances include:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>July 22: If you write your dates with the day before the month, as is standard in Europe, you\u2019ll see that this date becomes 22\/7. Since 22\/7 is a fraction historically valued for its closeness to pi\u2014at five decimal places it is 3.14285\u2014July 22 is recognized by math enthusiasts as Pi Approximation Day. (If nothing else, it\u2019s a great excuse to bake a pie!)<\/p>\n<p>November 23\u2014Maybe pi isn\u2019t really your thing. You could always celebrate Fibonacci Day. The digits of this date form the first four numbers in the Fibonacci Sequence: 1, 1, 2, 3.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re interested in mathematicians\u2019 birthdays, you can find a calendar of those <a href=\"http:\/\/mathforum.org\/~judyann\/calendar\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Coming up this month are Joseph Fourier (3\/21) of the Fourier transform and Fourier series, algebraist and physicist Emmy Noether (3\/23), and the famous Paul Erd\u00f6s (3\/26).<\/p>\n<p>Do you have any favorite math holidays to celebrate?<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of Pi Day being last week, I thought it would be fun to take a look at days of mathematical note. First, did you know that Pi Day (3\/14) is also the birthday of renowned physicist Albert Einstein? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/2013\/03\/20\/pi-day-math-holidays\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" data-url=https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/2013\/03\/20\/pi-day-math-holidays\/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-math"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3gbww-5Ts","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22658"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25011,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22658\/revisions\/25011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}