Marvin David Marcus (July 31, 1927, Albuquerque, New Mexico[1] – February 20, 2016, Santa Barbara, California) was an American mathematician, known as a leading expert on linear and multilinear algebra.
For the academic year 1956–1957 Marcus was on sabbatical in Washington, D.C. at the National Bureau of Standards, where he worked with Morris Newman (1924–2007).
He chaired UCSB's mathematics department from 1963 and 1969 and created what gained an international reputation as the "Santa Barbara School of Linear Algebra".
His three most important books might be Finite Dimensional Multilinear Algebra, Part I (1973, Marcel Dekker), Finite Dimensional Multilinear Algebra, Part II (1975, Marcel Dekker), and A Survey of Matrix Theory and Matrix Inequalities (1st edition 1964; reprint 1969; Dover reprint 1992).
[2][11] In 1966, Marcus and Minc received the Mathematical Association of America's Lester R. Ford Award for their 1965 article Permanents.