14/03/2026
Happy Pi Day
The symbol π comes from the Greek alphabet. And according to mythology, the person who brought that alphabet to Greece was a Phoenician called Cadmus.
He sailed west searching for his kidnapped sister Europa (who Europe is named after), gained a side-quest from the Oracle at Delphi to kill a dragon and build the city, and somewhere along the way, gave the Greeks their very first written letters.
One of those letters was π.
Thousands of years later, a Welsh mathematician picked that same letter to represent the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. 3.14159... and on it goes, infinitely.
So the next time someone tells you words and numbers live in different worlds, remember that the most famous constant in mathematics is named after a letter carried across the sea by a mythical hero.
We named ourselves after him for a reason.
Happy Pi Day from Cadmus Copy.
