Tom Brown
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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.
Blade Runner
Posted on Wed, 25 Jan 2017
Oscar Pistorius with nickname “Blade Runner”, as South African athlete participated in international sprinting events. Both his legs were amputated just below the knee, he has carbon-fibre prostheses.
A career of remarkable sporting...
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Very sensitive
Posted on Thu, 05 Oct 2023
Very sensitive Richard, you know what a guy wants! Tom
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I think there are forests
Posted on Mon, 04 Sep 2023
I think there are forests in Magoebaskloof and Blyderivier Canyon but they are partly destroyed to make way for alien plantations, which are stone dead not a mouse stirring, total silence. The Knysna forest Jacques spoke of must be incredible the...
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I found it fascinating
Posted on Thu, 05 Oct 2023
I found it fascinating that my shadow was so long late afternoon and so short at midday. How do you explain that to a kid?
In the one cowboy movie Terrence Hill can draw his revolver faster than his shadow. Movie for kids, great fun! ...
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... drawing back curtains
Posted on Tue, 26 Sep 2023
... drawing back curtains; greeting the sunshine and wondering! Fantabulous!
See you! Tom
Read full commentPosted in Misguided In The Early 90s
Once a tourist
Posted on Mon, 02 Oct 2023
Once a tourist here in the Kruger Park got out the car to have his picture taken with the lion, he got mauled yes and I believe they got it all on video, there was also a woman in America that sent her boy to paint a Grizzly with honey for a...
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All this makes me think
Posted on Mon, 02 Oct 2023
All this makes me think of Newton, according to the story he discovered the Law of Gravity seeing an apple falling from the tree. Romantic hey? There probably is some truth to it. Einstein discovered his "law of gravity" sitting in a barber's...
Read full commentPosted in Beneath My Favourite Tree
They said in the news
Posted on Tue, 26 Sep 2023
They said in the news the other day how there are solid plastic islands dritfing in the sea hundreds of kilometres of that. In the oceans. Imagine that? Thousands kilometres of plastic. Killing marine life, like you say, not biodegradable....
Read full commentPosted in Fantastic Plastic!
Sometimes it's nice to be alone
Posted on Sat, 23 Sep 2023
Sometimes it's nice to be alone, some peace and quiet andgood company that's why I like fishing so much. No problem if you forgot the bait at home.
Good luck! Tom
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I am a rock
Posted on Sat, 23 Sep 2023
I am a rock, I am an island, and a rock feels no pain, and an island never cries.
Have a good week, we have an public holiday tomorrow, not that it matters anything to me.
Cheers! Tom
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