Marc Thomas

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Marc Phillip Thomas (1949-2017) was a professor of computer science and mathematics, retired chair and a system administrator of Computer Science department at CSU Bakersfield.

Country:  | United States

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Interests:  | Teaching
UNIX
Operating Systems
Computer architecture
Computer networking
Banach algebra
Fréchet algebra
Woodworking
Carpentry
Guitar
Website:  | https://web.archive.org/web/20021005054550/http://www.cs.csubak.edu/~marc/unix/unix_ap_copyr.html

His successful research projects include the resolution of the commutative Singer-Wermer conjecture and construction of a non-standard closed ideal in a certain radical Banach algebra of power series and their quotients.

## Contents

* 1 Exposition
* 2 Publications
* 3 Education
* 4 Related work
* 5 External links

## Exposition

* The Relationship between C, ANSI C, and C++
* "The Unix Operating System". http://www.cs.csubak.edu/~marc/unix/unix_ap_copyr.html. (from Encyclopedia of Information Systems)
* "The PC Organism". http://www.cs.csubak.edu/~marc/quips/pc_organism.txt.
* "OS/2 FAQ". http://www.cs.csubak.edu/~marc/quips/OS2_faq.txt.
* Remarks on Network Security
* Typical Hacking Attempts
* Typical Buffer Overflow Hack Attempts
* Moronic Hacking
* Efficient Hacking

## Publications

* Elements in the radical of a Banach algebra obeying the unbounded Kleinecke-Shirokov conjecture[yes|permanent dead link|dead link}}]
* Marc P. Thomas (Jan 2003). "Local power series quotients of commutative Banach and Fréchet algebras". Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 355 (5): 2139–2160. doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-03-03251-3. https://www.ams.org/journals/tran/2003-355-05/S0002-9947-03-03251-3/home.html.
* Prime-like Elements and Semi-direct Products in Commutative Banach Algebras[yes|permanent dead link|dead link}}]
* Marc P. Thomas (1983). "Closed Ideals of l1({ωn}) when {ωn} is Star-Shaped". Pacific Journal of Mathematics 105 (1): 237–255. doi:10.2140/pjm.1983.105.237. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.pjm/1102723506.
* Principal Ideals and Semi-direct Products in Commutative Banach Algebras[yes|permanent dead link|dead link}}]
* Single-Element Properties in Commutative Radical Banach Algebras:a Classification Scheme[yes|permanent dead link|dead link}}]
* Reduction of discontinuity for derivations on Frechet algebras
* Radical Banach Algebrasand Quasinilpotent Weighted Shift Operators.
* The image of a derivation is contained in the radical (MR970607)
* Marc P. Thomas (1993). "Primitive Ideals and Derivations on Non-Commutative Banach Algebras". Pacific Journal of Mathematics 159 (1): 139–152. doi:10.2140/pjm.1993.159.139. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.pjm/1102634383.
* Marc P. Thomas (1978). "Algebra Homomorphisms and the Functional Calculus". Pacific Journal of Mathematics 79 (1): 251–269. doi:10.2140/pjm.1978.79.251. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.pjm/1102806001.

## Education

* Degree: Ph.D. (Mathematics), UC Berkeley, 1976

## Related work

* Derivations with large separating subspace

## External links

* CSUB Computer Science Department
* California State University of Bakersfield

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