Chad and Robyn Barker thought that Pi would make a good baby name years before they knew they would have children together.
There seemed to be something spiritual about pi, the irrational number that represents the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. It begins 3.14159 and goes on for eternity. It is always the same number, no matter the size of the circle.
Baby Pi wasn’t born March 14, but the cute little guy, whose birthday is Dec. 6, 2007, will be among the folks celebrating Pi Day at the San Francisco Exploratorium at 1:59 p.m. Friday, which also happens to be Albert Einstein’s birthday.
The day will be celebrated with a Pi Procession, in which Mill Valley resident Larry Shaw, the founder of the event that is in its 20th year, leads attendees around the museum all the way to his pi shrine, where participants sing “Happy Birthday” to Einstein, famous for his mathematical prowess.
Ron Hipschman, who has worked at the museum for more than 35 years, and Lori Lambertson, the Exploratorium’s New Teacher program coordinator, will lead a demonstration in the computation of pi. Other events of the day include the Ask a Scientist Pi Day Puzzles, pie eating and pizza pie tossing contests with nine-time world pizza champion Tony Gemignani of Pyzano’s in Castro Valley.

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