The Pi Day Google Doodle was made by the inventor of the Cronut β€” here’s what to know about the day

Pi Day Google Doodle Dominique Ansel

  • Pi Day was first established 30 years ago in 1988 by physicist Larry Shaw.
  • The day celebrates the number π›‘, 3.14, and is also Albert Einstein’s birthday and now the day Stephen Hawking died.
  • If you’d like to celebrate the day with a delicious pie, Google got Cronut creator Dominique Ansel to share a recipe for a salted caramel apple pie.

If you haven’t baked your favorite pie to celebrate Pi Day yet, Google has you covered.

Today, March 14th, is the 30th anniversary of Pi Day (for, you know, 3/14 or 3.14). Not only does the day recognize the tasty-sounding mathematical constant that “represents the ratio between a circle’s circumference (perimeter) to its diameter (distance from side to side passing through the center),” it’s also both the birthday of Albert Einstein and now the death day of famed theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking.

See the rest of the story at Business Insider

NOW WATCH: What would happen if humans tried to land on Jupiter

See Also:

SEE ALSO: Stephen Hawking died on a day that is cosmically connected to Albert Einstein and Pi

Post Author: martin

Martin is an enthusiastic programmer, a webdeveloper and a young entrepreneur. He is intereted into computers for a long time. In the age of 10 he has programmed his first website and since then he has been working on web technologies until now. He is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of BriefNews.eu and PCHealthBoost.info Online Magazines. His colleagues appreciate him as a passionate workhorse, a fan of new technologies, an eternal optimist and a dreamer, but especially the soul of the team for whom he can do anything in the world.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.