Tom Brown

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My stories have been read 337034 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

Jokes aside!

Little Tommy Tucker Sings for his supper! - Wait! Shake-Shake! Shaky-shaky-shaky! Bubblegum-Milkshaky! - Did you see “Kissing Frogs” by Prince Cha...

Covid Optimism

South Africa Freedom Day Today we celebrate the freedom of our young rainbow nation and our beautiful land and give thanks and gratitude in prayer...

A little challenge

A problem from my post of Infinite Series, find the sum as just a simple formula (a rational function) of: 1 + 1/4 + 1/9 + 1/16 + ... + 1/n²

Infinite Series

The essay is meant for people with some after-school mathematics training and just to understand some theory it is not meant as rigorous at all just...

My brother also has a Humpty Dumpty (IP)

My brother also has a Georgy Porgy one: Humpty Dumpty pudding and pie Bombed the Arabs and watched them die But when Korea came out to play Humpty...

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388 of my comments have received 389 Great Feedback votes

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Sounds wonderful Paul

Posted on Tue, 27 Apr 2021

Sounds wonderful Paul I wonder if we'll see the day! The immediate future is much more bleak but more sure. Closer to home.

The Moon, in her pale desolate beauty, cold and dead, that is very close hold your breath, a colony on the moon....

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Beautiful tribute

Posted on Tue, 20 Apr 2021

Beautiful tribute. All the best! Tom Brown

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Posted in I Lost A Neighbor And A Friend

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True

Posted on Sat, 03 Apr 2021

True

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Posted in Time

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You know your

Posted on Tue, 16 Mar 2021

You know your story you did your research hey Paul? (Apart from the myths?) but as given your facts actually look quite in order but the geometry is actually very simple pencil and paper. As is a lot of geography.

Keep well! Tom

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Once I met a guy who made

Posted on Mon, 25 Jan 2021

Once I met a guy who made a living with sand sculptures in the beach they called him the sandman. He was a very wise man I spent some nights there by him he learnt me some valuable things.

Yes, in the end, we all live in sandcastles or...

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Posted in Sandcastle

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Lovely meditation Jenny!

Posted on Sun, 10 Jan 2021

Lovely meditation Jenny! Sounds a lot like camping in the wild in nature! And beautiful poetery definitely inspired. Someone told me the medicine-doctor (sjaman) took an aloe's juice to see visions it is an hallucigen. Like magic mushrooms but...

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Posted in Freeing My Spirit

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Well done

Posted on Fri, 08 Jan 2021

Well done

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Posted in The Dead Cat

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Buddies, peer pressure

Posted on Fri, 08 Jan 2021

Buddies, peer pressure, smoking cigarettes a misspent youth can't tell me everything.

Do you know about Schrodinger's cat? It is like opening a new story on Abc. I don't fall for the cat in a box I think it's nonsense.

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Posted in The Dead Cat

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Tricky "I had to do it

Posted on Thu, 31 Dec 2020

Tricky "I had to do it; Mother Nature let me down. I should take a picture on my phone. Everybody does." Then the ending open, mysterious, just guesswork. 

A selfie with a (your victim's) freshly murdered corpse that's a new one.

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Posted in Happy New Year

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Heavy going

Posted on Fri, 27 Nov 2020

Heavy going. Good story good prose -Tom

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Posted in The Seven Ages of Alcoholism – A Letter To My Addiction

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