Tom Brown

Primary tabs

I have 230 stories published in 21 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 198673 times and 16 of my stories have been cherry picked.
320 of my 2,335 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 322 votes

Close reader
Tom Brown's picture
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 at 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.

God is in the details. God is in the timing.

My stories

Cherry

Jack Brown

My great grandfather Frank Brown was miraculously of a handful survivors in the battle of Delville Wood, where the South African infantry was wiped...
1 likes
Cherry

Nkosi Bayete!

As he passed knocked my friend on the head from behind, no time took him down a much bigger guy, Rooikat (lit “Red Cat”) the youngster pumping like a...

Strange Places

For many days I did not eat or sleep, I had completely neglected studies there had been drinking sprees even blackouts. As psychotic I did very...
2 likes

Time-travel and Loops

There is a fundamental difference between reality and experience, let us say we can “physically” move to the past, that is time-travel. The study is...
Cherry

Private Psychiatric Hospital

At last 100% the right medicines after more than 20 years state care, the food is good too but they are very strict on hospital rules, and...

Pages

320 of my comments have received 322 Great Feedback votes

1 Vote

delightful walk

Posted on Wed, 13 Dec 2023

A delightful walk! Strenuous I would say, rather an endurence event. See you! Tom

Read full comment

Posted in Tumbling river and tangled footpath

1 Vote

Most people would need

Posted on Wed, 29 Nov 2023

Most people would need amphetamines or some strong stimulant to to stay awake so long. Not good. The idea of dance lessons that's excellent, most people on a dance floor don't have a clue.

Just random partners making out publicly at the...

Read full comment

Posted in Crazy! Crazy Days and Nights

1 Vote

Tommy come home!

Posted on Wed, 22 Jul 2009

Dear, dear, what can the matter be? Is Tommy still at the fair?

Oh dear, what can the matter be?

When, when oh when will Tommy be home?

 

Read full comment

Posted in A mathematical defence

1 Vote

State Transport

Posted on Sat, 21 Oct 2023

If you enjoyed this you should read the story “A full force gale” it is also in my set Shosholoza!

This all was around 2002 the first admission was 1987, and then 2009 but I don't plan...

Read full comment

Posted in Nkosi Bayete!

1 Vote

And I say to myself

Posted on Sun, 15 Oct 2023

And I say to myself, what a wonderful world!

See you! Tom

Read full comment

Posted in I Love

1 Vote

Northern Muse

Posted on Sat, 07 Oct 2023

If you liked the story on Dr Frank you should also read “A dweller on the threshold” in my set Shosholoza!

 

Read full comment

Posted in Strange Places

1 Vote

I wonder how many

Posted on Wed, 11 Oct 2023

I wonder how many families still sit around a table for meals? It is sad. It is part of ages old rituals an integral part of society and life. I know from when I lived alone, especially supper it felt so wierd and spooky on your own.

And...

Read full comment

Posted in 6 (?) to dinner

1 Vote

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...

Read full comment

Posted in Disabilities and Employment

1 Vote

Very sensitive

Posted on Thu, 05 Oct 2023

Very sensitive Richard, you know what a guy wants! Tom

Read full comment

Posted in A Little Child

1 Vote

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...

Read full comment

Posted in Stirring Forest

Pages