A Baker's Dozen for Pi Day

Today, March 14, is known among geeks and others as Pi Day. Why Pi Day, you ask? Today's date is often notated as 3/14 and the value of pi (or π) is 3.14159265358979323846264338327... or to be more succinct, 3.14.

In celebration of Pi Day, we offer a baker's dozen of titles in a surprising range of books appropriate to a wide age range of readers that relate in some fashion to pi or pie, or perhaps some other variant of pi.

 

Life of Pi

by Yann Martell

This book won the 2002 Man Booker Prize and has been translated into more than forty languages. A #1 New York Times bestseller, it spent eighty-seven weeks on the list and was adapted to the screen by Ang Lee. If you've never read it, you should. If you've read it already, you owe it to yourself to read it again.

ISBN: 9780156027328

20 Easy Raspberry Pi Projects

by Rui Santos of the popular website, Random Nerd Tutorials

A beginner-friendly collection of electronics projects, perfectly suited for kids, parents, educators, and hobbyists looking to level up their hardware skills After a crash course to get you set up with your Raspberry Pi, a tiny and affordable computer, you’ll learn how to build interactive projects. This book is due out in stores in mid-April.

ISBN: 9781593278434 (Publication date: April 3, 2018)

The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi

by Eugene Ostashevsky

An original collection from one of the most active poets in contemporary literature, this new large-scale poetry project by Eugene Ostashevsky draws on sources as varied as early modern texts about pirates and animal intelligence, old-school hip-hop, and game theory to pursue the themes of emigration, incomprehension, untranslatability, and the otherness of others.

ISBN: 9781681370903

The Shivering Turn: A PI Series Set in Oxford (Jennie Redhead Mystery #1)

by Sally Spencer

Introducing Oxford-based PI (private investigator) Jennie Redhead in the first of a brand-new mystery series. When Mary Corbet walks into private investigator Jennie Redhead's rundown Oxford office one pleasant spring day in 1974, she is a desperate woman. Although she’s convinced her daughter has been murdered, she can get neither the police nor her husband to agree with her. The hardcover edition of this book is a bit of a challenge to find (Our wonderful General Manager, Gustavo, can find it!), but the paperback edition is due out in June.

ISBN: 9780727886675

How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics

by Eugenia Cheng

What is math? How exactly does it work? And what do three siblings trying to share a cake have to do with it? Combined with her infectious enthusiasm for cooking and a true zest for life, Cheng's perspective on math is a funny journey through a vast territory no popular book on math has explored before. So, what is math? Let’s look for the answer in the kitchen.

ISBN: 9780465097678

 

Searching for Pi: The Novel for Kids

by Bianca March

Discover pi through a child's eyes... A search for pi is a search for ultimate truth. This is a must-read for teachers, math enthusiasts, students who need a new way of learning math, and anyone who enjoys a great middle-grade fiction story.

ISBN: 9781530517930

Art of Pi

by Stefan Hollos and J. Richard Hollos

People have been interested in circles for a long time. One can imagine early humans attaching a cosmic significance to circles. After all, the two greatest objects in the sky, the sun, and the moon are circles. If you measure a circle’s perimeter (circumference) and divide by its width (diameter) you get a number that is the same for all circles, a value known as pi. This book is an exploration of beautiful and unique drawings that can be interpreted from the value of pi, an art book meant to ignite your creativity and imagination.

ISBN: 9781887187312

Little Pi and Peanut’s Adventures with Loops, Stacks, and Queues

by Satvika Kumar

In this adorable book for kids with a twist, Little Pi and Peanut go on adventures together. Join them as they go to Loop Park, eat cookies after dinner, and pick out clothes for Little Pi’s first day of school! Along the way, learn about how Little Pi and Peanut use loops, stacks, and queues, the building blocks of computer programming, in their daily life.

ISBN: 9781503560222

PI Leadership: The 7 Positive Insight Steps to Peak Performance Leadership

by Tony Brooks

PI Leadership is the key to increasing your success and fulfillment as a leader. Positive Insight (PI) relates to the positive way in which you view yourself, others and situations. Developing your Positive Insight to motivate, engage, empower and deliver is critical. It is through this that you will find a deeper and more helpful perspective to bring success and improved results in all areas of leadership. 

ISBN: 9780992688950

Pi in the Sky

by Wendy Mass

Joss is the seventh son of the Supreme Overlord of the Universe. His older brothers help his dad rule the cosmos, but all Joss gets to do is deliver pies. That's right: pies. Of course, these pies actually hold the secrets of the universe between their buttery crusts, but they’re still pies. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Candymakers comes a world-hopping tale that leads the reader deep into the heart of the mysteries of time and space. Plus, there’s pie.

ISBN: 9780316089173

The Pie and Pastry Bible

by Rose Levy Beranbaum

Your magic wand for baking the pies, tarts, and pastries of your dreams, this is the definitive work by Rose Levy Beranbaum. She is the country’s top baker, a frequent contributor to all the major food magazines and The New York Times, a consultant to the baking and chocolate industries. Yet, she offers easy-to-follow recipes, with tips, techniques, solutions for common problems, and explanations that will make you a better pie-baker even if you already are a good one. There are recipes for all kinds of pies and tarts, including sweet and savory options.

ISBN:9780684813486

Easy as Pie Crosswords: Nice & Easy!

by Stanley Newman

This top-notch collection features 72 daily-size crosswords from leading puzzle-makers, edited by the prolific pro, Stanley Newman. All the crosswords have themes, so even the longest answers are tied together in some way—and that can help solvers.

ISBN: 9781454923411

Pie in the Sky: How Joe Hill’s Lawyers Lost His Case, Got Him Shot, and Were Disbarred

by Kenneth Lougee

Interested in more than Hill's guilt or innocence, Lougee provides a thorough discussion of the case-including Hill's background with the Industrial Workers of the World, the political and religious climate in Utah at the time, the particulars of the trial, and the failings of the legal process. In this analysis, Lougee focuses on those involved in the trial, most especially the lawyers, which he describes in the text as “the worst pieces of lawyering of all time."

ISBN: 9781462029921