The surprising history behind the world’s favorite math holiday Every year on March 14, math lovers, scientists, teachers, and pie enthusiasts unite for one of the nerdiest, and tastiest, holidays on the calendar: Pi (π) Day. The date, written as 3/14, mirrors the first three digits of the mathematical constant pi, approximately 3.14. But the […]
Marie Curie was a pioneer of modern science. Despite a career that was physically demanding and ultimately fatal, she discovered polonium and radium, championed the use of radiation in medicine and fundamentally changed the understanding of radioactivity. Marie Curie was born Marie Skłodowska in 1867 in Warsaw, Poland, to a family of teachers who believed […]
