Happy Pi Day: Quotes, Wishes, Messages, Images, Date, and More

Pi is a transcendental number. It is described as a ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. The value of Pi is 3.14. It is infinite in length. Due to its never-ending nature, a special day is dedicated to celebrate its uniqueness. The day is termed Pi day. It is celebrated on March 14. The date indicates its value, i.e., 3rd month and 14th day. Pi is defined as a "constant value in math to represent a ratio of a circumference of a circle to its diameter, which is about 3.14". This irrational number is represented by the Greek letter "π". 

History of Pi Day

Pi was first used to figure the circumference of a circle around 40 centuries ago by the Babylonians. The first computation of π was done by a great mathematician, Archimedes, between 287–212 BC. He approached the area of a circle by a theorem called the Pythagorean Theorem to estimate the areas of two regular polygons. The two polygons are described a s follows. The polygon inscribed within the circle and the polygon within which the circle was circumscribed. As the area of the circle lies between the areas of the inscribed and circumscribed polygons, we got the upper and lower bounds for the area of the circle. As he had not derived the value of π but only an approximation within those limits. Archimedes confirmed that the value of π is between 3 1/7 and 3 10/71. In the 1600s, Isaac Newton used infinite series to get more accurate numbers. π, a symbol to represent Pi, was invented by British mathematician William Jones in 1706 for representation of the ratio and later, it was popularized by the Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler. In 1988, the Exploratorium museum of science, art and human perception in San Francisco had the honour to hold the first Pi day celebrations. It was organized by a well-known physicist Larry Shaw. US congress officially declared March 14 to celebrate the significance of "π" day on March 12, 2009. 

Pi Day 2023 Date

• When is Pi Day 2023?

Pi Day for the year 2022 is celebrated/observed on Tuesday, 14 March.

• Pi Day dates for the years 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026, 2027, 2028, 2029 and 2030

Pi Day Quotes, Wishes and Messages

• The isolated man does not develop any intellectual power. It is necessary for him to be immersed in an environment of other men, whose techniques he absorbs during the first twenty years of his life. He may then perhaps do a little research of his own and make a very few discoveries which are passed on to other men. From this point of view the search for new techniques must be regarded as carried out by the human community as a whole, rather than by individuals. – Alan Turing
• Mathematicians aren’t satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are no solutions up to infinity. – Andrew Wiles
• ‘Contrariwise,’ continued Tweedledee, ‘if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn’t, it ain’t. That’s logic.’ – Lewis Carroll
• There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres. – Pythagoras
• Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. – Albert Einstein
• It matters little who first arrives at an idea, rather what is significant is how far that idea can go. – Sophie Germain
• Girls are capable of doing everything men are capable of doing. Sometimes they have more imagination than men. – Katherine Johnson
• Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things. – Isaac Newton
• Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything. – Blaise Pascal
• The apex of mathematical achievement occurs when two or more fields which were thought to be entirely unrelated turn out to be closely intertwined. Mathematicians have never decided whether they should feel excited or upset by such events. – Gian-Carlo Rota
• The mathematician does not study pure mathematics because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it and he delights in it because it is beautiful. – Henri Poincaré
• Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination. – Sofia Kovalevskaya
• Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, ‘We’ve always done it this way.’ I try to fight that. That’s why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise. – Grace Hopper
• What is imagination?…It is a God-like, a noble faculty. It renders earth tolerable, it teaches us to live, in the tone of the eternal. – Ada Lovelace
• You are no better than anyone else, and nobody else is better than you. – Katherine Johnson
• On two occasions I have been asked, ‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’ I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. – Charles Babbage
• The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow analysis; but it has no power of anticipating any analytical relations or truths. Its province is to assist us to making available what we are already acquainted with. – Ada Lovelace
• Mathematicians stand on each other’s shoulders. – Carl Friedrich Gauss
• Understand well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand. – Ada Lovelace
• We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done. – Alan Turing
• Mathematicians are like managers – they want improvement without change. – Edsger Dijkstra
• In my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did biology. I wanted to do math and physics, but my father made me do chemistry because he thought there would be no jobs for mathematicians. – Stephen Hawking
• In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious. – Blaise Pascal
• A ship in port is safe, but that is not what ships are for. Sail out to sea and do new things. – Grace Hopper
• No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful. – George Boole
• Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. – Albert Einstein
• It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission. – Grace Hopper
• Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all. – Charles Babbage
• People tend to think that mathematicians always work in sterile conditions, sitting around and staring at the screen of a computer, or at a ceiling, in a pristine office. But in fact, some of the best ideas come when you least expect them, possibly through annoying industrial noise. – Edward Frenkel
• ’Obvious’ is the most dangerous word in mathematics. – E.T. Bell
• Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant generals — the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history, the great scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned, if at all. – Martin Gardner

Significance of Pi Day 

Pi plays a significant role in the calculation of the circumference of a circle and a circle can be observed in various fields such as science - statistics, fractals, thermodynamics, mechanics, cosmology, number theory, and electromagnetism, Trignometry, nature – ocean waves, light waves, mountains by series of circles. Not just this, even NASA uses in the various calculation. 

Celebration of Pi Day 

The existence of the interesting and mysterious constant is celebrated all over the world by students, teachers, mathematicians and fans of Pie. 

Why fans of Pie? 

Pi and Pie are homophones. Therefore, few of the enthusiasts celebrate by eating and sharing Pie on Pi day. Pi day is celebrated on an international level by eating all kinds of pies. Without any exceptions, people may try meat pie, chocolate pie and what not! It is a golden opportunity for Bakers to exhibit their baking creativity by preparation of various kinds of pie on Pi day. The most common ways of celebrating are by participating in a baking competition at the workplace, preparing Pies or pie-eating competitions, sharing math jokes, throwing fun math puzzles with a distribution of rewards for the winners. Not just this, NASA celebrates Pi day across the US nation. 

Let us look at the significance and ways of celebrations in different nations. 

• China

Zu Chongzhi, a Chinese mathematician and astronomer, determined the transcendental number value with an accuracy of seven decimal places, between 3.1415926 and 3.1415927. His analysis remained the most accurate for nearly 1,000 years until the 14th century. Zu made contributions in both the fields; a lunar crater and an asteroid bear his name; a high school was named after him in north China. 

• Japan

In Japan, it coincides with the celebration of "White Day," the Far East's formal equivalent of Valentine's Day, but this one is only for the ladies. 

Pi has inspired a competitive sport: Pi memorization, where practitioners recite as many digits in Pi from memory. Akira Haraguchi, 69, from Japan, has set a new record by reciting 100,000 digits in public – which took him 16hr 30min. 

• Pakistan

In 2021, Aga Khan University Institute Educational Development organized a mathematics teachers' conference, providing teachers with a platform to demonstrate their analytical and problem-solving skills in the subject. Professionals from various educational institutes including private, government, community-based, and Madrassa school systems in urban and rural settings in Pakistan, India, and East Africa participated in the conference. Due to Covid-19 restrictions, the conference was held online. Three hundred teachers shared video clips demonstrating how mathematics can be used in our daily lives. After careful evaluation by a panel of experts, selected videos were shown on the conference day. 

• Bangladesh

The day was observed for the first time in Bangladesh in 2006. World mathematics week celebrated in 2015, from March 14th-20th with Pi day to begin. As a part of celebrations, many organizations had organized various types of events to celebrate the week. Neutrino ACC Science Club of Adamjee Cantonment College conducted 'All-Time NASC Math week. Olympiads on Math, Physics, Biology, Chemistry including Math quiz, Math using no calculator, Rubik's Cube, Math fiction writing etc. were organized, and the winners of these events were given prizes. 

Theme of Pi Day 2022 

Every year, a theme is assigned to the celebration of Pi day. Likewise, the Theme assigned for 2022 is Mathematics Unites. 

Some Interesting Facts 

• This day is also known as the international day of mathematics. 
• March 14 is also the birthday day of a great mathematician and physicist, Albert Einstein too. 
• Few of the bakers and non-bakers too offer amazing deals on this day: check out offers set by Bubby's, Southern Baked Pie Company, First Methodist Church, Signal Station Pizza, Paiku, The Pie Hole, Cracker Barrel, Cici's Pizza Buffet, Fireman Derek's Bake Shop, Grand Traverse Pie Company, Patxi's Pizza, Marco's Pizza, Kroger and the list goes on. 
• There is another day dedicated for Pi, the Pi approximation day celebrated every year on July 22. Also known as casual Pi day. Decimal value of Pi never stops or repeats. It has been a mystery to reach an end. 
• Stephen Hawking, a theoretical physicist, passed away on one of the Pi days. 
• 2015 was special for Pi day as the date was 3/14/15, even closer to the value of pi, which begins at 3.1415. 
• Pi is also used to calculate the motion of pendulums, vibrations of strings, alternating electric currents. 
• Pi is not just related to geometry but also mathematics. It is used to obtain the radius of a circle. Various models of Pi calculation were introduced, of which few are listed below. 

1. Infinite series 
2. Monte Carlo Simulation 
3. Computer way of Pi calculation

• Apart from this, Indian Mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan had his own theory for the calculation of PI. 

Therefore, it is fun and important to chase such a mystery. What are you waiting for? Grab a few delicious pies and enjoy them while watching movies with friends and family. Not just that, create memories by participating in interesting quizzes, sharing jokes and baking a few and send us ;). 

Happy Pi day!!