Abstract Fermat’s Last Theorem, which appears as a symbol in Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia, was announced to be solved only two months after the play premiered. When Stoppard was writing Arcadia, the Theorem was still an unsolvable mystery; to the first audiences who saw the play performed, the Theorem represented a triumph of rediscovery. We may therefore interpret the Theorem’s symbolism in two different ways, both of which contribute to a different reading of the play’s essential question: whether history, discoveries, and art, once lost, are lost forever, or whether they can be recovered in the future.

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“没有证明”：费马大定理与汤姆斯托帕德《阿卡迪亚》中的历史重构

摘要 费马大定理在汤姆·斯托帕德的《阿卡迪亚》中作为一个符号出现，在该剧首映后仅两个月就宣布解决。当斯托帕德写《阿卡迪亚》时，定理仍然是一个无法解开的谜；对于第一批观看演出的观众来说，定理代表了重新发现的胜利。因此，我们可以用两种不同的方式来解释定理的象征意义，这两种方式都有助于对戏剧的基本问题进行不同的解读：历史、发现和艺术是否一旦丢失就永远丢失，或者它们是否可以在未来恢复.