{"id":1494,"date":"2018-02-10T01:48:45","date_gmt":"2018-02-10T01:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mtx\/?p=1494"},"modified":"2018-03-07T15:47:41","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T15:47:41","slug":"math-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mtx\/2018\/02\/10\/math-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"Math Holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n\"Math<\/a>
\nA special thanks to Laurel Post, Grainger Engineering Library Graduate Assistant, for creating this Mathematics Library exhibit.<\/p>\n

Dates<\/h2>\n

e Day – February 7, 2018<\/h3>\n

e Facts<\/a><\/p>\n

Pi (\u03c0) Day – March 14, 2018<\/h3>\n

Pi Definition<\/a> and Pi Facts<\/a><\/p>\n

Math 2.0 Day – July 8, 2018<\/h3>\n

Celebrate the intersection of math and technology.<\/p>\n

Palindrome Week – August 10 \u2013 August 19, 2018<\/h3>\n

A Palindrome Day happens when the day\u2019s date can be read the same way backwards and forwards. The dates are similar to word palindromes in that they are symmetrical.<\/p>\n

Mole Day – October 23, 2018<\/h3>\n

Mole Day<\/a><\/p>\n

Fibonacci Day – November 23, 2018<\/h3>\n

Fibonacci Day<\/a><\/p>\n

Books on Display<\/h2>\n
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  1. [Pi] : a biography of the world’s most mysterious number \/ Alfred S. Posamentier & Ingmar Lehmann ; afterword by Herbert A. Hauptman. (Math 512.73 P84b)<\/li>\n
  2. Fabulous Fibonacci numbers \/ Alfred S. Posamentier, Ingmar Lehmann ; afterword by Herbert A. Hauptman. (Math 512.72 P84f)<\/li>\n
  3. Finding Fibonacci : the quest to rediscover the forgotten mathematical genius who changed the world \/ Keith Devlin. (Math 510.92 F44d)<\/li>\n
  4. How euler did even more. (Math 510.92 Eu53s)<\/li>\n
  5. Joy of [pi] \/ David Blatner. (Math 516.22 B613j1997)<\/li>\n
  6. Mathematics everywhere \/ Martin Aigner, Ehrhard Behrends, editors ; translated by Philip G. Spain. (Math 510 Al548m)<\/li>\n
  7. Number mysteries : a mathematical odyssey through everyday life \/ Marcus du Sautoy. (Math 510 D94n)<\/li>\n
  8. Return to mathematical circles : a fifth collection of mathematical stories and anecdotes \/ Howard W. Eves ; selected illustrations by Cindy Eves-Thomas. (Math 510 Ev2r)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibits"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mtx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mtx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mtx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mtx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mtx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1494"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mtx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1550,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mtx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions\/1550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mtx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mtx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mtx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}