The sublime and the mundane

Here are two videos (one long–45 minutes, one vey short–under two minutes) that make me feel glad to be alive and inspire me. The first is the incredible documentary on the quest of Andrew Wiles to solve Fermat's Last Theorem (HT: Alex Tabarrok). I watched it last night (third time) with two of my sons, 10 and 12 who understand virtually none of the math in the video. (Of course that goes for me, too). But the beauty of the video is that you don't need to understand the math to find it...