Richard Feynman, No Ordinary Genius

Now available in its entirety on YouTube, a 95-minute documentary on physicist Richard Feynman called No Ordinary Genius.

The excellent film on Andrew Wiles’ search for the solution to Fermat’s Last Theorem is available as well (watch the first two minutes and you’ll be hooked).

• Andrew Wiles
• mathematics
• physics
• Pierre de Fermat
• Richard Feynman
• science
• video

Fermat’s Last Theorem

This 45-minute documentary on Andrew Wiles’ proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem is surprisingly powerful and emotional. Give it until 1:45 or so and you’ll want to watch the whole thing. The film is not really about math; it’s about all of those movie trailer cliches — “one man!”, “finds the truth!”, “fights the odds!”, etc. — except that this is actually true and poignant.

• Andrew Wiles
• mathematics
• movies
• Pierre de Fermat