Eight Ball in the corner pocket? Not on Alex Bellos’ billiard table. It has no corner pockets—indeed, it has no corners whatsoever. Bellos, a British journalist who covers sports and mathematics, ...

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Why I built Britain’s first elliptical pool table, for the game of LOOP, which will have its inaugural championship at the Port Eliot Festival later this month. When I began writing about maths I had ...

The University of Waterloo unveiled their first ever elliptical pool table in the mathematics department on Tuesday afternoon and hosted a tournament for students to play a unique pool game called ...