In mathematics and physics, the Artin billiard is a type of a dynamical billiard first studied by Emil Artin in 1924. It describes the geodesic motion of a free particle on the non-compact Riemann surface where is the upper half-plane endowed with the Poincaré metric and is the modular group. It can be viewed as the motion on the fundamental domain of the modular group with the sides identified.