This drama accurately captures what it means to be a mathematician. Partway in the drama, there is a scene where one of the main cast gives a monologue to a group of math olympiad students around a campfire, and it captured the essence, and what it means to be a mathematician, and I believe Lockhart would have been proud.

It doesn't matter if you don't get the brainy mathematics shown throughout the series. I have a math background and even I don't even bother thinking about these problems that the show presents to us. Mathematics can be thought of as the work of geniuses, but the truth is that anyone can be a mathematician, so long as you appreciate the heart that these giants put into discovering their theorems.