Pi(e) and Physics

Celebrate one of mathematics’ most well-known constants with — what else? — some pie! Join the math department in O’Connor Auditorium between 4pm and 5pm today. Learn about pi and women’s history — and enjoy pastry and prizes. Full details here.

March 14 is also the birthday of Albert Einstein, the theoretical physicist responsible for the Theory of Relativity and the famous mass-energy equivalence formula E=mc2. Einstein, who was born in Germany in 1879, immigrated to Princeton, New Jersey, in 1933 to escape the rising Nazi threat. He became a citizen in 1940 and lived out his remaining years in the U.S. He died in 1955.