Marc Thomas (computer scientist)

American computer scientist

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

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.

## Exposition

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* The Relationship between C, ANSI C, and C++
* "The Unix Operating System". Archived from the original on October 5, 2002. Retrieved February 17, 2006.`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) (from Encyclopedia of Information Systems)
* "The PC Organism". Archived from the original on April 28, 1997. Retrieved February 17, 2006.
* "OS/2 FAQ". Archived from the original on April 28, 1997. Retrieved August 17, 2017.
* Remarks on Network Security
* Typical Hacking Attempts
* Typical Buffer Overflow Hack Attempts
* Moronic Hacking
* Efficient Hacking

## Publications

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* Elements in the radical of a Banach algebra obeying the unbounded Kleinecke-Shirokov conjecture[permanent 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/S0002-9947-03-03251-3.2139-2160&rft.date=2003-01&rft_id=info:doi/10.1090/S0002-9947-03-03251-3&rft.au=Marc+P.+Thomas&rft_id=https://www.ams.org/journals/tran/2003-355-05/S0002-9947-03-03251-3/home.html&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Marc+Thomas+(computer+scientist)" class="Z3988">
* Prime-like Elements and Semi-direct Products in Commutative Banach Algebras[permanent 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.1983.105.237.237-255&rft.date=1983&rft_id=info:doi/10.2140/pjm.1983.105.237&rft.au=Marc+P.+Thomas&rft_id=https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.pjm/1102723506&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Marc+Thomas+(computer+scientist)" class="Z3988">
* Principal Ideals and Semi-direct Products in Commutative Banach Algebras[permanent dead link‍]
* Single-Element Properties in Commutative Radical Banach Algebras:a Classification Scheme[permanent 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.1993.159.139.139-152&rft.date=1993&rft_id=info:doi/10.2140/pjm.1993.159.139&rft.au=Marc+P.+Thomas&rft_id=https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.pjm/1102634383&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Marc+Thomas+(computer+scientist)" class="Z3988">
* Marc P. Thomas (1978). "Algebra Homomorphisms and the Functional Calculus". Pacific Journal of Mathematics. 79 (1): 251–269\. doi:10.2140/pjm.1978.79.251.251-269&rft.date=1978&rft_id=info:doi/10.2140/pjm.1978.79.251&rft.au=Marc+P.+Thomas&rft_id=https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.pjm/1102806001&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Marc+Thomas+(computer+scientist)" class="Z3988">

## Education

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

## Related work

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* Derivations with large separating subspace

## External links

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* CSUB Computer Science Department
* California State University of Bakersfield

Authority control databases

International|

* ISNI
* VIAF
* WorldCat

National|

* United States
* France
* BnF data

Academics|

* Mathematics Genealogy Project
* zbMATH
* MathSciNet

Other|

* IdRef