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Samit Dasgupta

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JB Duke Distinguished Professor of Mathematics @ Duke University. Co-founder, FOXP1 Medical Research Foundation. Number theory, rare disease, chess, DC sports.
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The plot thickens! Apparently there are technical issues with the use of Heegner points in the non-split case in Fan-Wan, so the resolution of Sylvester from their method remains unclear. I have not investigated myself.
But two separate recent works from Yin & Burungale-Tian
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Samit Dasgupta @samit_dasgupta Jun 16
I somehow missed this when it was first posted, but Sylvester's Conjecture has been proved by Fan and Wan! Every prime congruent to 4, 7, or 8 mod 9 can be expressed as the sum of two rational cubes.
arxiv.org/abs/2304.09806
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