While we’ve seen librarians and scientists with tattoos, there is still a bit of a stigma against teachers coming into school with full sleeves of ink.... READ ON

Although our ancestors had managed to invent the wheel millennia prior to the good ol’ days of Ancient Egypt, it wasn't until that civilization arose thousands of years later that the human race began to understand the mysteries behind the circle. Our modern comprehension of pi, or the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, is a fairly recent development in our history, and the Egyptians were the first on the ball.... READ ON

Eighteenth-century mathematician William Jones had a problem with pi—namely, it didn’t exist yet. At the time of his working and teaching in the field of mathematics, there was no term for the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, despite the value’s importance to even the most basic study of geometry. In his 1706 book, Synopsis Palmariorum Matheseos, or A New Introduction to the Mathematics, he made a modest proposal: that the universal constant be known as pi, and thus was mathematical histor... READ ON