Tom Brown

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Tom Brown

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.

My stories

Escape of the Boer Swimmers

During the South African War (October 1899 – May 2002) many Boers were taken prisoner and exiled by the British Army. Most of the prisoner of war...

Class of '84

Also your greatest of all advantage in a chess game is to have your opponent underestimate you. Myself don't attend reunions I'm usually busy then,...

Gospel Concert

We went to some gospel concerts at the rugby stadium it was Don Francisco he never asked entrance fees only donations, even for the songs, free on...

President In Office

Mr Cyril Rhamaphosa Do not underestimate the responsibility on his shoulders, let us try and understand the difficulty and directly conflicting...
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Checkmate!

Super-Sneaker had won the prize for the best school attendance with no absence at all for the twelve school years, at the opening when it was...

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400 of my comments have received 401 Great Feedback votes

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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

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Posted in Fragments Of Life

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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...

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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...

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a lot worse

Posted on Mon, 28 Jul 2025

You get a lot worse than that believe me.

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Posted in The Watchers In The Walls

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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...

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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...

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Posted in Crafted and Mastered

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Good story Jenny!

Posted on Thu, 24 Jul 2025

Good story Jenny! "whispered through threads of conversation",

All the best! Tom

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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...

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Posted in The Watchers In The Walls

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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

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Posted in My Absent-Minded Violinist

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WITS

Posted on Wed, 27 Mar 2024

Once proud heritage, striving for equality and excellence.

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Posted in Brutal Honesty

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