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"The Billiard Ball" is a science fiction short story by American author Isaac Asimov, written in September 1966 and first published in the March 1967 issue of If. It appeared in Asimov's 1968 collection Asimov's Mysteries, in his 1973 collection The Best of Isaac Asimov, in his 1986 collection Robot Dreams and in The Complete Stories, Vol. 2.
A billiardball is a small, hard ball used in cue sports, such as carom billiards, pool, and snooker. The number, type, diameter, color, and pattern of...
The hairy ball theorem of algebraic topology (sometimes called the hedgehog theorem in Europe) states that there is no nonvanishing continuous tangent...
for the glancing blow in each case. Later analysis by Thorne and Robert Forward showed that for certain initial trajectories of thebilliardball, there...
A dynamical billiard is a dynamical system in which a particle alternates between free motion (typically as a straight line) and specular reflections from...
A billiard 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...
create a delicate shiny sphere resembling a billiardball. The phrase dorodango (泥だんご) is derived from the Japanese words doro (泥, lit. "mud") and dango...
and the Margolis neighborhood, closely related to the automata for thebilliardball model and for the HPP lattice gas. However, thebilliardball model...
fruit bears no resemblance to a billiardball, and there is no direct evidence for such a derivation. In modern French, the word carambolage means 'successive...
Look up Billiard, billiard, or billiards in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Billiard or billiards may refer to: A billiard, a type of shot in cue sports...
The Albany BilliardBall Company was an American manufacturer of billiard balls based in Albany, New York. The company was founded in 1868, manufacturing...
to a billiardball manufacturer. Over the course of the 20th century, English billiards was largely superseded as the favoured cue sport in the United...
wide variety of games of skill played with a cue, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered table bounded...
Pinball (originally called pintable in the UK) games are a family of games in which a ball is propelled into a specially designed table where it bounces...
obsolete term for a cue, used from the 16th to early 19th centuries, is billiard stick. The forerunner of the cue was the mace, an implement similar to a...
billiard-ball computer is a type of mechanical computer that uses the motion of spherical billiard balls to perform computations. In this model, the wires...
My Name with an S" (1958) "The Ugly Little Boy" (1958) "TheBilliardBall" (1967) "True Love" (1977), a Multivac story "The Last Answer" (1980) "Lest We...
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