Mathemagical Buffet

Mathemagical Buffet offers a delectable feast to everyone with a basic facility in secondary-school mathematics. Every topic reflects the incomparable excitement, beauty, and joy of mathematics; they present a wealth of ingenious insights and marvelous ideas at the fundamental level.The chapters are independent and can be read in any order. Everyone who enjoys elementary mathematics will truly delight in the following gems:

• Pythagorean Triples via Geometry
• New proofs of Generalizations of the Theorems of Ptolemy and Simson
• Mind Reading Tricks, Ladder Lotteries, Mazes, Lattice Points, Round
  Robin Competitions, An Elementary Fixed Point Theorems and More
• Simple proofs of the lovely Theorems of Pick and of Jung
• The Constructibility of a Regular 17-gon
• Open Problems on Egyptian Fractions and on Primes

Moreover, the reader is gently encouraged to participate actively by responding to a line of questions that are thoughtfully sprinkled throughout the developments of the expositions.