Tom Brown
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I have 260 stories published in
22 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 303224 times
and 18 of my stories have been cherry picked.
374 of my 2,759 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 375 votes

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.
Writing certainly helps one deal
Posted on Thu, 04 Jun 2020
Writing certainly helps one deal with deep issues and things that happened long ago. Sometimes it is easier to write than talk, and writing down helps to organise your thoughts.
Keep well Jenny, thanks for the comment I feel very important...
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Thanks Claudine
Posted on Thu, 04 Jun 2020
Thanks Claudine. Glad to hear from you. I do have many semi-biography stories like this already in my collection "WILD" but there still are many more.
Thank you very much for the superb work as an editor we appreciate it greatly. I am a...
Read full commentPosted in The bottle and spanner
Just goes to show
Posted on Sun, 24 May 2020
Just goes to show, a dog is a man's best friend! What is your favourite dog breed Richard? They say the most popular breed worldwide is a Labrador retriever. When I was young I had a Rottweiler - Doberman cross. Bloodthirsty murderous a killer....
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It doesn't
Posted on Mon, 25 May 2020
It doesn't look like democracy works.
Read full commentPosted in Tread Where?
I've got the same
Posted on Mon, 13 Apr 2020
I've got the same problem. Technophobia. What is twitter? Fasebook? Do you know? Is there a meanual? These hundreds of the newfangled things like apps and viewtube serious I don't know anything about it. A waste of time if you ask me. I do Abc...
Read full commentPosted in The Alternative Rainbow.
My sentiments exactly
Posted on Wed, 20 May 2020
My sentiments exactly. A big thank-you Abc and well done!
Read full commentPosted in ABC Tales Rocks !
Perhaps they were not at home
Posted on Mon, 13 Apr 2020
Perhaps they were not at home maybe you should try again? All the same I'm sure it's fine I'm sure they won't mind for you to take a photo of their rainbow cross. You could perhaps just leave a note?
Your husband sounds like a very kind...
Read full commentPosted in The Alternative Rainbow.
"I thought about the driver
Posted on Thu, 07 May 2020
"I thought about the driver. Concentrating. Sitting in his cabin. Eyes focused on the vanishing point. Mind on the minutiae of his day".
I always believed train drivers sleep most of the time Kevin I mean it doesn't take much to steer a...
Read full commentPosted in When the light fades
Another beautiful nature poem
Posted on Sun, 03 May 2020
Another beautiful nature poem Richard always quality work. Excellent with the regular posts I myself don't manage so many.
Hope things are looking up in Canada it's just getting worse here and they expect the peak infection rate only in...
Read full commentPosted in This Tide of Ocean (2)
One of those things
Posted on Mon, 13 Apr 2020
One of those things you'll always regret Janet, let's call is sociophopia or just plain fear of rejection. Of course aggravated severly by lockdowns. Sometime one needs terrific courage it is true.
Can't you go around there again take a...
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