MANALAPAN – It has been celebrated with pie eating contests, marathon runs, birthday parties for Albert Einstein, numerical memory contests and even children’s get-togethers and violin concerts, but at the Monmouth County Library Headquarters in Manalapan, Pi Day will be celebrated with a presentation of Einstein by professional re-enactor William Agress.
Agress will be at the library on March 11, celebrating Pi Day three days early in an event that will begin at 2:30 p.m., according to a press release.
The modern Einstein will talk about pets, travels, schoolwork and even the scientific discoveries of the Nobel Prize winner who first visited Princeton briefly in 1921, but came back in 1933 and lived there until his death 22 years later.
Pi is the spelling of the Greek letter and represents the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. In mathematical terms, pi is expressed as 3.14159 and can never be expressed as a precise fraction, according to the press release.
It has become traditional to associate the pi symbol with March 14 (3.14) and celebrations and observances have abounded among scholars, high school students and fun lovers for decades, according to the press release.
Einstein has been associated with Pi Day celebrations because of his theory of relativity and scientific knowledge and research. There is no fee for the March 11 performance at the library and no reservations are necessary. To learn more, visit monmouthcountylib.org
