A Mathematician’s Lament by Paul Lockhart

G.H. Hardy
"A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas."

https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf

John Urschel - MoMath's 2018 Gala Keynote

Mystery Math Whiz and Novelist Advance Permutation Problem

Mystery Math Whiz and Novelist Advance Permutation Problem
https://www.quantamagazine.org/sci-fi-writer-greg-egan-and-anonymous-math-whiz-advance-permutation-problem-20181105/

"A new proof from the Australian science fiction writer Greg Egan and a 2011 proof anonymously posted online are now being hailed as significant advances on a puzzle mathematicians have been studying for at least 25 years."

SageMath

http://www.sagemath.org/

SageMath is a free open-source mathematics software system licensed under the GPL. It builds on top of many existing open-source packages: NumPy, SciPy, matplotlib, Sympy, Maxima, GAP, FLINT, R and many more. Access their combined power through a common, Python-based language or directly via interfaces or wrappers.

Mission: Creating a viable free open source alternative to Magma, Maple, Mathematica and Matlab. 

• http://www.sagemath.org/tour-quickstart.html
• http://www.sagemath.org/tour-graphics.html
• http://www.sagemath.org/tour-research.html

https://github.com/sagemath/

20018 Fields Medal Winner: Akshay Venkatesh

Professor Akshay Venkatesh (who entered university at 13) has become the second Australian to win the coveted Fields Medal, the maths equivalent of a Nobel Prize.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/fields-medalist-akshay-venkatesh-bridges-math-and-time-20180801/

"Akshay Venkatesh, a former prodigy who struggled with the genius stereotype, has won a Fields Medal for his 'profound contributions to an exceptionally broad range of subjects in mathematics.'"