Tom Brown
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Tom Brown
I consider myself a teacher of mathematics. I have an MSc at the University of
South Africa and a PhD at the University of Pretoria but people mostly know
South Africa and a PhD at the University of Pretoria but people mostly know
me as Mr Brown. What gives me most meaning and fulfilment in work is to
encourage and inspire gifted young people, who could face similar difficulties
and adversities than I've had. My main academic research interests would be
in stochastic processes and in the mathematical theory of empathy.
My greatest academic ambition is to consolidate the work of Prof Niko Sauer.
A monumental task. For the love of God and the fear of Mathematics!
it's good to be young
Posted on Fri, 14 Mar 2014
It's good to be young and insane.
Read full commentPosted in Mental Illness
Good old stuff
Posted on Thu, 20 Jun 2013
Good old stuff! Defiant!
Read full commentPosted in a junky's lament
Sala kahle!
Posted on Sat, 10 Nov 2018
“Sala kahle” is a Zulu greeting for goodbye. It says “stay well”. For “go well” the greeting is “hamba kahle!”
I gave an attempted phonetic English spelling. I am learning isiZulu it's going slowly but steadily. I find it very difficult....
Read full commentPosted in In That Moment
Sounds good!
Posted on Thu, 15 Nov 2018
Sounds good! We don't ever get snow here in South-Africa. Never. Most of us haven't even ever seen snow. Only when it's terribly cold sometimes it snows on the mountains. The Cape mountains and the Drakensberg. There in the northern hemishere is...
Read full commentPosted in LET THE SEASONS
It sounds like a fairy tale
Posted on Tue, 13 Nov 2018
It sounds like a fairy tale. It's good to hear of a success story but there must be a lot give-and-take. Not all moonshine and roses hey!? Do you have other kids Richard?
Keep well! Tom Brown
Read full commentPosted in IT WAS A NIGHT
Two men look through
Posted on Sat, 03 Nov 2018
Two men look through the same bars, the one sees the mud, the other the stars.
Read full commentPosted in WHAT I SEE
I know how it feels-
Posted on Wed, 24 Oct 2018
I know how it feels-
Read full commentPosted in Weep Till Forever
Excellent!
Posted on Thu, 25 Oct 2018
Excellent! Enjoyed! Your poem reminds me of Narnia of the scene with Lucy with the falling leaves in Prince Caspian. A sense of wonder.
Read full commentPosted in An Autumn of Leaves
Just beautiful
Posted on Thu, 18 Oct 2018
Just beautiful. To me yellow is faithfulness, gold is noble and eternal. Your others could be, the colour blue serenity and peace perhaps, and red would be love.
Good! Tom Brown
Read full commentPosted in Colours
A beautiful little poem, sometimes I wish I had
Posted on Wed, 17 Oct 2018
A beautiful little poem, sometimes I wish I had children especially small children steal one's heart. Do you have? In the end thrown into the world they too must make their own way, fight their own fights, take their own chances. Without choice...
Read full commentPosted in Parenthood
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