Marc Thomas (computer scientist) explained

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
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

• The Relationship between C, ANSI C, and C++
• Web site: The Unix Operating System . February 17, 2006 . https://web.archive.org/web/20021005054550/http://www.cs.csubak.edu/~marc/unix/unix_ap_copyr.html . October 5, 2002 . bot: unknown . mdy-all . (from Encyclopedia of Information Systems)
• Web site: The PC Organism . February 17, 2006 . https://web.archive.org/web/19970428231735/http://www.cs.csubak.edu/~marc/quips/pc_organism.txt . April 28, 1997 . dead . mdy-all .
• Web site: OS/2 FAQ . August 17, 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/19970428233052/http://www.cs.csubak.edu/~marc/quips/OS2_faq.txt . April 28, 1997 . dead . mdy-all .
• 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
• Local power series quotients of commutative Banach and Fréchet algebras . Marc P. Thomas . . 355 . 2139–2160 . Jan 2003 . 5 . 10.1090/S0002-9947-03-03251-3 . free .
• Prime-like Elements and Semi-direct Products in Commutative Banach Algebras
• Closed Ideals of l¹ when is Star-Shaped . Marc P. Thomas . . 105 . 1 . 237–255 . 1983 . 10.2140/pjm.1983.105.237. free .
• Principal Ideals and Semi-direct Products in Commutative Banach Algebras
• Single-Element Properties in Commutative Radical Banach Algebras:a Classification Scheme
• 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
• Primitive Ideals and Derivations on Non-Commutative Banach Algebras . Marc P. Thomas . Pacific Journal of Mathematics . 159 . 1 . 139–152 . 1993 . 10.2140/pjm.1993.159.139. free .
• Algebra Homomorphisms and the Functional Calculus . Marc P. Thomas . Pacific Journal of Mathematics . 79 . 1 . 251–269 . 1978 . 10.2140/pjm.1978.79.251. free .

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