Tom Brown
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24 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 347990 times
and 18 of my stories have been cherry picked.
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Apart from studies in the natural sciences I am interested in languages and literature in general as well as religion. Lately I have been writing more popular general interest essays and also trying for a bit of balance with mathematics and while keeping things understandable for most people.
I am South-African born and bred. At high school I excelled in science and mathematics competitions and completed two years of mechanical engineering with very good results. That didn't work out due to ill health. I have had permanent teaching positions at Unisa and Wits.
Graduating with an MSc under WK Bartoszek (Unisa 1997) and a PhD under N Sauer (Pretoria 2006) formal interests would be in abstract analysis: Markov operators and stochastic processes; vector valued Laplace transforms applied to semigroups and families of evolution equations (empathies). It has now been quite a while since I was academically active I don't have much published. The way things have developed was beyond my control and I am very isolated.
Favourite authors are Jules Verne, HG Wells and Jack London, Shakespeare and poets William Blake and Dylan Thomas. I like adventure, science fiction and fantasy movies my all time greatest are the Narnia stories and the Lord of the Rings.
The meal best enjoyed is a breakfast of bacon eggs on toast fried chips with fresh orange juice, and for supper an ox-tail stew. I like eating out romantic. For recreation nature hikes, camping and fishing, listening to good music and reading, classics mostly, and good movies. I love dogs my best one was a Maltese poodle Freddy. I love rain and lightning thunderstorms and rainbows. As well as writing and publishing here on Abctales.
I have begun to study mathematics and its applications again, and look forward to be involved in formal research and teaching.
God is in the details of the details. God is in the timing of the timing.
lovely words, beautiful images
Posted on Thu, 14 Aug 2025
Jenny! What beautiful language! Such as "vast oceans of sky" ; "crystal rainbows of delight".
Inspired for sure! Tom
Read full commentPosted in Fragments Of Life
breathtaking
Posted on Wed, 13 Aug 2025
Lovely, breathtaking, I wish I could see them for myself! We have them in the southern hemisphere too, called "Southern Lights" then? or "Southern Aurora"?
You would have to be a lot more south, and if you are very lucky too, I hear...
Read full commentPosted in Borealis
collecting postcards
Posted on Tue, 12 Aug 2025
collecting postcards
Rhiannon when I was in school I collected postcards my mother helped me find penpals overseas to write and swop and that. The one man was in Russia he was in a bit of danger actually, remember it was in the time of the...
Read full commentPosted in Discovered old postcards
a lot worse
Posted on Mon, 28 Jul 2025
You get a lot worse than that believe me.
Read full commentPosted in The Watchers In The Walls
Bind us Together
Posted on Sun, 03 Aug 2025
Bind us together Lord, bind us together Lord
Bind us together, bind us together with Love
Bind us, bind us together Lord bind us together Lord
Bind us together with chords that cannot be broken
Bind...
Read full commentPosted in Jesus Christ divides!
Romance
Posted on Fri, 01 Aug 2025
The harp is beuatiful I like panflute also, like a really grand date, an anniversary leaving the kids with parents and that, to re-discover true romance!
The story where King Saul threw David with his spear just as he was bending down also...
Read full commentPosted in Crafted and Mastered
Good story Jenny!
Posted on Thu, 24 Jul 2025
Good story Jenny! "whispered through threads of conversation",
All the best! Tom
Read full commentPosted in Hollyhock Tears Or Whispers Of Gods.
Yes these days
Posted on Mon, 28 Jul 2025
Yes these days you can forget about privacy the whole world may just as well looking, not even for a bit of quiet relief. Like being on reality TV all the time.
Excellent story Jess, but I would have liked a bit more context, although you...
Read full commentPosted in The Watchers In The Walls
A violin is a bit
Posted on Tue, 29 Jul 2025
A violin is a bit of a valuable item to be left lying around!
See you Rhiannon! Tom
Read full commentPosted in My Absent-Minded Violinist
WITS
Posted on Wed, 27 Mar 2024
Once proud heritage, striving for equality and excellence.
Read full commentPosted in Brutal Honesty
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