Happy Pi Day! If you like numbers, Yesterday, March 14, 2015, should have been a good day for you. When written as a numerical date, it’s 3/14/15, corresponding to the first five digits of pi (3.1415) — a once-in-a-century coincidence! Pi Day, which would have been the 136th birthday of Albert Einstein, is a great excuse to eat pie, and to appreciate how important the number pi is to math and science.

And Today … the Ides of March

Although, not a good day for Julius Caesar, brings to mind an old Roman saying (parahprased) “K2 Brutus, K2“