Tom Brown

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My stories have been read 303026 times and 18 of my stories have been cherry picked.
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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

Cherry

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Creative writing can often be therapeutic, to sort out confusion and regain mental balance and deliberately create a positive attitude. The following...
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Curiouser and Curiouser!

Puzzling perplexions baffling riddles, The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today –Lewis Carroll Lateral puzzles You enter a...

The Nicotine Addict

What is Nicotine? A highly toxic poisonous chemical that works on the central nervous system both as stimulant or tranquilliser, the physiological...

Stand Up Comic

These days people just want to charge their batteries all the time for the rest they spend their life intensely “on your smutfone or tablet” whatever...

Kingdom of Heaven

Is there life out there? Could there even be intelligent life? One wonders if there might be other beings similar to us? Other beings, intelligent...

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374 of my comments have received 375 Great Feedback votes

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Teaching Mathematics

Posted on Mon, 13 Sep 2021

Teaching Mathematics is an art but often thankless and unfulfilling. When the student fares poorly it is always the teacher's fault but when he does well the student is champion. I have taught at every level from primary school up to post-...

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Posted in The Maths Teacher

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It is always a very good thing

Posted on Thu, 09 Sep 2021

It is always a very good thing to be able to see something from the other person's point of view also. Few people can really. One should try and practice it, I mean in general, any good teacher should have this kind of ability. To understand each...

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Posted in A Winning Handshake

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Terrible hey?

Posted on Sun, 29 Aug 2021

Terrible hey? And it is everyday reality. You capture the essence in just a few words.

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Posted in flotsam and jetsam

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The buzz of scooters sounds familiar

Posted on Mon, 16 Aug 2021

The buzz of scooters sounds familiar, be home before curfew the better part of valour is discretion.

Good! Never been to Itally myself they say it can get very hot there.

Keep well, all the best! Tom Brown

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Posted in Naples: balcony overlooking Via Firenza

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Great!

Posted on Mon, 09 Aug 2021

Great! Going for summer here too! And visiting again the happy places of your childhood it is past so quickly.

Must say it's a blessing to have such close cousins I've got dozens. One or two are very special. All of them are. Our parents...

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Posted in Time’s Travel

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Excellent

Posted on Sun, 01 Aug 2021

Excellent. I also knew people who I later wished I spoke with that I could learn of them, but I did speak to the sandman for some times, on the beach. Wish I had spoken more with my father and my uncle and my grampa but as it is I had learnt a...

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Posted in The Not-So Green Man

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Enjoyed, and your cover the portrait

Posted on Sat, 31 Jul 2021

Enjoyed, and your cover the portrait is stunning, briliant. Imagine you could paint like that.

Cheers! Tom

 

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Posted in The wasp (an excerpt from the next Crowe investigation) 2021

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Beautiful descriptions Marcia

Posted on Tue, 15 Jun 2021

Beautiful descriptions Marcia dramatic hey? Good. You clearly know something about geology. You appear certainly a very unique and interesting person. Cherries!

Keep at it I enjoy reading your work! Tom Brown

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Posted in stuff of life ip

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“A finished piece of writing is distanced

Posted on Sat, 24 Jul 2021

“A finished piece of writing is distanced from its author’s heart”, yes very true Marcia and thank God. Maybe that is the reason for writing, especially poetry. Just let it go.

Your poem is really lovely and I don't even need my glasses!...

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Posted in “of a piece “

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Peanut butter

Posted on Sat, 24 Jul 2021

Peanut butter. Black belt? No! Black Cat! Great advertisement. Nice picture, chocolate icing or black cat? By the way what is IKEA?

Keep well! Tom Brown

 

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Posted in In IKEA, he dreams about the woman he loves

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