In 1935 Tartakowski (7) proved that, in general, a cubic form in sufficiently many variables with coefficients in an algebraic number field K has a non-trivial zero in that field; and in the case when K is the rational field 57 variables suffice. Here, ‘in general’ means that the coefficients of the form do not lie in a proper subvariety of the coefficient space. Hence, Tartakowski's result holds for almost all cubic forms. Later, Lewis (5) proved that if K is any algebraic number field such that [K: Q] = n, then there exists a function ψ(n) such that every cubic form over K in m ≥ ψ(n) variables has a non-trivial zero in K. His bound, ψ(n), is extremely large; e.g. when K is the rational field, ψ(1) > 500.