Math & Pastry Books for Pi(e) Day!

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A computer illustrated, AI-generated cat "baking" a pie wearing a chef's hat with a floating wooden baking tool.
A.I. and cats and pi(e). Credit goes to Kyle Minton and the Midjourney AI image generator.

It’s Pi(e) Day! A day where we celebrate both math and pastry (and wordplay).

Let’s get down to business. Keep reading for some math and pastry books.

Some math books for your Pi Day–

humble pi: when math goes wrong in the real world by matt parker
Available at the Main Campus (QA 93 .P37275 2020) and as an ebook through Dogwood Digital Library
Making Numbers Count: The Art and Science of Communicating Numbers by Chip Heath and Karla Starr
Available at the Main Campus, Northern Durham Center, and Orange County Campus (QA 141.15 .H433 2022) and as an audiobook through Dogwood Digital Library
Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data by Charles Wheelan
Available at the Main Campus (QA 276.W458 2014)
the data detective: ten easy rules to make sense of statistics by tim harford
Available at the Main Campus (HA 29 .H2498 2021)
Algebra the beautiful: an ode to math's least-loved subject by G. Arnell Williams
Available at the Main Campus (QA 150 .W55 2022)
The first 1.25 million digits of pi available as an ebook through Dogwood Digital Library

And a few baking books for your Pi(e) Day–

Pie Every Day: Recipes and Slices of Life by Pat Willard
Available at the Main Campus (TX 773 .W69 1997)
Happiness is Baking by Maida Heatter
Available at the Main Campus TX 773 .H346 2019
baking with dorie: sweet salty & simple by dorie greenspan
Available at the Orange County Campus Library (TX 763 .G6539 2021)
life is what you bake it: recipes stories and inspiration to bake your way to the top by vallery lomas
Available at the Main Campus (TX 763 .L66 2021)
gluten-free baking at home: 102 foolproof recipes for delicious breads cakes cookies and more by jeffrey larson
Available at the Orange County Campus Library (TX 765 .L33 2019)
how to bake everything by mark bittman
Available at the Main Campus (TX 763 .B525 2016)
AI cat leaping into pie, dough bits flying, exuberant joy on the brown and white tabby's face

Now go with joy into your Pi(e) Day!

About Meredith Lewis

Meredith is a librarian at Durham Tech on both the Main and Orange County Campuses.