• Outer billiards is a dynamical system based on a convex shape in the plane. Classically, this system is defined for the Euclidean plane but one can also...
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    polyhedra and tessellations, and have been studied in connection with outer billiards, a problem in the advanced mathematics of dynamical systems. A kite...
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  • English-language terms used in the three overarching cue sports disciplines: carom billiards referring to the various carom games played on a billiard table without...
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  • Billiards II: 100 Degrees worth of periodic billiard paths" Journal of Experimental Math (2008) R. E. Schwartz, "Unbounded orbits for Outer Billiards"...
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    opening the gate to discrete KAM theory. He contributed to the theory of outer billiards, providing a full proof of a result announced earlier by J. Moser....
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    table or billiards table is a bounded table on which cue sports are played. In the modern era, all billiards tables (whether for carom billiards, pool,...
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    Baker's map is an example of a chaotic piecewise linear map Billiards and outer billiards Bouncing ball dynamics Circle map Complex quadratic polynomial...
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  • locally connected? Many problems concerning an outer billiard, for example showing that outer billiards relative to almost every convex polygon have unbounded...
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    negative curvature. The study of billiards which are kept out of a region, rather than being kept in a region, is known as outer billiard theory. The motion...
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    Ground billiards is a modern term for a family of medieval European lawn games, the original names of which are mostly unknown, played with a long-handled...
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