Tag: Pi Day

  • Nation & World

    Serving up science on Pi Day

    Students from four Boston Public Schools spent March 14 at the Science and Engineering Complex doing hands-on engineering projects and interacting with undergraduate and graduate students studying STEM at Harvard.

    5 minutes
    Students making robotic gripper.
  • Nation & World

    Our endless fascination with pi

    For centuries, pi — the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter — has fascinated mathematicians and scientists. For more perspective on the famous number, the Gazette turned to physics lecturer Jacob Barandes — who, with some help from his 9-year-old daughter, Sadie, recited pi to 100 digits for us.

    3 minutes