%0 Journal Article %T A Note on Some Uniform Algebra Generated by Smooth Functions in the Plane %A Raymond Mortini %A Rudolf Rupp %J Journal of Function Spaces and Applications %D 2012 %I Hindawi Publishing Corporation %R 10.1155/2012/905650 %X We determine, via classroom proofs, the maximal ideal space, the Bass stable rank as well as the topological and dense stable rank of the uniform closure of all complex-valued functions continuously differentiable on neighborhoods of a compact planar set and holomorphic in the interior กใ of . In this spirit, we also give elementary approaches to the calculation of these stable ranks for some classical function algebras on . %U http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jfsa/2012/905650/