Pi Goes to Washington

U.S. House Resolution 224 (March 2009)

» Congress votes, not quite unanimously, to recognize March 14 as Pi Day

Only 112 years after its last appearance on a legislative floor—the doomed bill in the Indiana statehouse that offered nine different values for the number—Pi made a surprise appearance in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2009. Read more..

The Guy Who Named it Pi

William Jones (1675 – 1749)

» First mathematician to use the Greek letter π to represent the important ratio read more.

Devoted Beyond Death

Ludolph van Ceulen (1540 – 1610)

» Tireless hand-calculator who took pi to 35 digits & had them engraved on his tombstone read more.