Hacker Cinema
The proof
2013 · Film · 95 min
Directed by Amor Hakkar
Ali, a taxi driver in Algeria, and his wife, Houria, are unable to have children. When he travels to another city to test his fertility, he is accused by Fatima, a pregnant woman, of being the father of her unborn child. When Houria leaves him, Ali can either reveal his infertility or live with his alleged infidelity.
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Simon Singh, the guy who wrote that book, also made a very cool documentary on it. It used to be on YouTube, but it was removed by the BBC (they have a very annoying habit of removing educational content from YouTube). It's on the BBC iPlayer.
There is also an excellent long interview with Ken Ribet, who proved a result that inspired Wiles to take on the proof: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUN4NDVIfVI
There's a lovely documentary from the BBC/Horizon on Andrew Wiles' accomplishment. Also ran on PBS as the "The Proof".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FnXgprKgSE
It's a very moving piece that puts a lot of depth behind the 2d scribbling on paper that describes whole universes. Also a very humane look into the lives of mathematicians.
Reminds me so much of how people obsessed with a solution will give up any semblance of a social life to pursue it.
There are so many great books written that I would suggest buying a book and enjoying.
Among my favorite authors are:
Keith Devlin (check out his latest: The Unfinished Game about the invention of probability.)
William Dunham (check out: Journey through Genius: a survey of historically important math proofs that does not require too much background)
The book that got me to return to mathematics after college was the Mathematical Experience by Reuben Hersh and Phillip J. Davis.
There's also been some fantastic NOVA documentaries (my own favorites are "The Proof" about Andrew Wiles and the "Trillion Dollar Bet" about the mathematics of finance.)
I find Wikipedia is fantastic for reference material but not so great for study material. Better for self-study is MIT online. (Here's a link to a series of excellent video lectures on linear algebra: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Mathematics/18-06Spring-2005/VideoLectures/index.htm)
I have my own blog about mathematics (http://fermatslasttheorem.blogspot.com) which attempts to provide complete and clear proofs for famous results in mathematics. Some months, I get as many as 20K unique visitors so you might find it helpful.
There are also fantastic links on Hacker News on mathematics. I've found some great ones about Bayes' Theorem, for example. (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Bayes+Theorem+site%3Anews.ycombinator.com&btnG=Search)