Pi Day:
10-year-old Alberto Davila Aragon from Bristol, UK set a new world record by recalling 280 decimal places of Pi in one minute on Pi Day.
- Pi Day, or International Day of Mathematics, celebrated on March 14 every year, honours the mathematical constant Pi, recognising its significance in mathematics.
- Pi Day is celebrated by lovers of mathematics every year through Pi recital competitions and Pi Day workouts to stimulate interest in learning and practising mathematics.
- The theme for Pi Day 2025 is ‘Mathematics, Art, and Creativity’.
- Why March 14 :
- The approximate value of Pi is 3.14.
- The date, when written in the format of month/day (3/14), matches the first three digits of the mathematical constant.
- The first Pi Day was celebrated in 1988 by physicist Larry Shaw at the San Francisco Exploratorium.
- In 2009, the United States House of Representatives officially designated March 14 as Pi Day.
- Later, in 2019, UNESCO declared Pi Day as the “International Day of Mathematics” during its general conference.
- Albert Einstein, the renowned physicist behind the “General Theory of Relativity,” was born on Pi Day in 1879.
