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.

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Spacemen and Heavenly beings

Mythology of ancient civilizations the Egyptians, Greek and Roman, heroes and gods, giants and great warriors of Norsemen and Goths as well as almost...

War of the Worlds

Put your money in the Moon! Lunar real estate yes and I am buying a plot of land a small farm on the Moon. All my savings, expensive but a good...

Carbon-dioxide and Planting Trees

Trees are the solution to our global warming problem and could even reverse the process and I have very good reasons to believe so. I propose this as...
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Unbearable Peace

The afternoon lone dissonant piano lesson the cadets band practice marching music endless over and over pleasant and comforting. A door swings and...
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Statics and Relativity

Classical Mechanics is divided into two disciplines: Statics is where a structure or system of particles remains fixed, whereas dynamics involves...

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387 of my comments have received 388 Great Feedback votes

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You know winter is here

Posted on Fri, 03 Feb 2023

You know winter is here when the swallows are all over rows and rows on the wires preparing to leave. Would love to do that. Take summer with you.

Cheers! Tom Brown

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Posted in Blue Yonder

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Especially with the sirens and lights!

Posted on Mon, 30 Jan 2023

Especially with the sirens and lights! I want to be a fireman when I grow up.

Loved it! See you Rhiannon! Tom

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Posted in Let the Blue through!

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What intrigue!

Posted on Tue, 17 Jan 2023

What intrigue! Can't blame you for being so curious. Read it a few times.

Keep well Jernny and all! Tom

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Posted in Extraordinary Experience On The Bus

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Very interesting Richard!

Posted on Fri, 20 Jan 2023

Very interesting Richard! And how you count yourself as a "homeless" person. Such as our world is just a tent before the mansions and great heavens.

But where does "Bathe" com in?

Cheers

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Posted in Bathe

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Let Go and let God

Posted on Thu, 12 Jan 2023

Let Go and let God

a slogan for us control freaks. Keep well Jenny!

Tom

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Posted in Allowing Letting Go

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Good! Makes me think of Narnia

Posted on Fri, 13 Jan 2023

Good! Makes me think of Narnia, "when Aslan bares his teeth winter meets it's death!

By the way in England how long are the days, in Winter? Summer? You must have a big difference there. .. . Tom Brown

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Posted in January (northern hemisphere)

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Honey dripping

Posted on Tue, 17 Jan 2023

Honey dripping of the lips the kisses of an enemy is abundant. Flattery is dangerous.

Nice poem! Keep well Rhiannon! Tom.

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Posted in For whose benefit …?

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Enjoyed! Sounds great!

Posted on Thu, 05 Jan 2023

Enjoyed! Sounds great! Tom

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Posted in Wind and squelch and far views

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Good! Learn useful things

Posted on Thu, 29 Dec 2022

Good! Learn useful things and good morals and keeping out of trouble. Here we also have the Voortrekkers it's very similar would allways recommend parents for sure.

& All the best Richard! Tom

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Posted in Boy Scout Days

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I didn't know

Posted on Mon, 12 Dec 2022

I didn't know you have so much snow in England Jenny? Is it unusual? We are having record rainfall figures in South-Africa and widespread flooding.

There were some critical internal elections now, Parliament, and ANC Party Conferences and...

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Posted in Walk In December Snow

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