Tom Brown
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22 collections on the site.
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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 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.
Simple and very sincere
Posted on Tue, 31 Dec 2019
Simple and very sincere a beautiful poem Richard! Such a gesture means a lot to a woman. They appreciate it always it makes her feel special. I agree with you about the donations my brother also does his due each year religiously. Doesn't have to...
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I am very sorry to hear
Posted on Thu, 26 Dec 2019
I am very sorry to hear of the misfortune Richard. It is terribly sad. We are with you and loved ones in our thoughts and prayers and we too hope for recovery. Everything is possible with God.
The Browns
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You must know how to work out
Posted on Sat, 28 Dec 2019
You must know how to work out the inside (obtuse) angles? It's very easy and quite neat. The same idea works for all regular polygons i.e 60o triangles, the square, pentagon hexagon and so on etc. Was it Archimedes that showed how these regular...
Read full commentPosted in Decagon
Serves them right
Posted on Mon, 23 Dec 2019
Serves them right.
Read full commentPosted in Run and Run Some More
The opening paragraph
Posted on Sat, 21 Dec 2019
The opening paragraph sounds so very familiar like the time I broke a beautiful wooden dining chair in half by accident, or when my buddies and me were playing and I ran the front door from its hinges, or we got drunk and smoked cigarettes and my...
Read full commentPosted in Peace on earth
Feels like it's about me
Posted on Tue, 17 Dec 2019
Feels like it's about me,
Cheers Richard
Read full commentPosted in Christmas is Forgiveness
Brilliant
Posted on Sun, 15 Dec 2019
Brilliant. The Prince of Peace. This hymn has to be used, and as is.
All the best hope things are well! Tom Brown
Read full commentPosted in “ A child … will be called …”
Sometimes
Posted on Tue, 10 Dec 2019
Sometimes we forget the humanity and the ordinariness of the Saviour. And the beauty in simplicity and humility.
True! Keep well Richard! Tom Brown
Read full commentPosted in A Poem for Jesus
Beautiful words
Posted on Sun, 08 Dec 2019
Beautiful words, the gospels, the story of hope mercy and salvation! Very appropriate Rhiannon!
Read full commentPosted in Messsages
Unreal
Posted on Tue, 26 Nov 2019
Unreal
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