The theory of apolarity was first developed by Clebsch, Lasker, Richw x mond, Sylvester, and Wakeford 10, 17, 20 . They were first interested in studying homogeneous polynomials of degree p and in q variables, and in expressing them as sums of pth powers of linear terms. The problem is to minimize the number of pth powers which are required in such a sum. For instance, a result due to Sylvester...