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.
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.
The Relationship between C, ANSI C, and C++The Unix Operating System at the Wayback Machine (archived October 5, 2002) (from Encyclopedia of Information Systems)The PC Organism at the Wayback Machine (archived April 28, 1997)OS/2 FAQ at the Wayback Machine (archived April 28, 1997)Remarks on Network SecurityTypical Hacking AttemptsTypical Buffer Overflow Hack AttemptsMoronic HackingEfficient HackingElements in the radical of a Banach algebra obeying the unbounded Kleinecke-Shirokov conjectureLocal Power Series Quotients of Commutative Banach and Frechet AlgebrasPrime-like Elements and Semi-direct Products in Commutative Banach AlgebrasClosed ideals of $l^{1}(\omega_{n})$ when $\{\omega_{n}\}$ is star-shaped.Principal Ideals and Semi-direct Products in Commutative Banach AlgebrasSingle-Element Properties in Commutative Radical Banach Algebras:a Classification SchemeReduction of discontinuity for derivations on Frechet algebrasRadical Banach Algebrasand Quasinilpotent Weighted Shift Operators.The image of a derivation is contained in the radical (MR970607)Primitive ideals and derivations on noncommutative Banach algebras.Algebra homomorphisms and the functional calculusDegree: Ph.D. (Mathematics), UC Berkeley, 1976Derivations with large separating subspace