‘math holiday’ Archive

March 14: Pi Day

Math Holiday: Pi Day Geek events to celebrate on March 14: 1794 – Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin. 1994 – Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released. 1995 – Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on-board a Russian launch vehicle. March 14 birthdays of geeky note: […]

January 6: Phi Day

Geek Holiday: Phi Day! The fabulously irrational number φ has two decimal representations (1.618… and -0.618…) so it can be celebrated both on January 6 and on June 18. Crazy, huh? Leave it up to those wacky mathematicians to create two viable party dates from one number. Double the φun, right? Phi is also important to […]