Years ago I taught a "liberal arts mathematics" course -- and for a time we used the text Mathematics, a Human Endeavor: A Textbook for Those Who Think They Don't Like the Subject by Harold R. Jacobs (W H Freeman, 1971); the text's topics included one new to me, the geometry of the paths of billiard balls. The ease I found with this mathematics ill-prepared me for the skill I needed to avoid embarrassment at a neighbor's new pool table -- and the memories of it all drew me immediately into Dan Brown's poem, "Why I Never Applied Myself to Pool," found in the March 2013 issue of Poetry.
Why I Never Applied Myself to Pool by Dan Brown
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Monday, July 8, 2013
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