Today is March 14th (3/14), so that means it’s Pi Day! This is, no lie, my favorite day of the year.
Pi is a number (about 3.1415926535879323846) that’s the ratio between a circle’s diameter and its circumference.
Martin Espinosa is a contractor who repairs houses and commercial properties and provides construction consulting. He’s also my dad! In this interview, I ask him about how he uses math in his construction business.
When I was young, I didn’t know that math could be scary. The first time someone told me they hate math, I was really surprised! Yet it’s the most common thing people say when I tell them about my profession.