Tom Brown

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My stories have been read 303224 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

Ancient Wisdom

Knowledge is better than riches, virtue is better than wealth Not to know is bad, not to wish to know is worse Advise and council him, if he does not...

What is Wisdom?

What is Wisdom? Small minds talk about things Ordinary minds talk about people Great minds talk about ideas * A fool doesn't learn from his mistakes...

Proverbs Of Africa

Proverbs are the daughters of experience ~ To forget a wrong is the best revenge To lose one's way is a way of finding it The road of excess leads to...

The Mathematician

One could go to his office with a problem anytime. It was correspondence university so there weren't too many students to be a bother. You could ask...

Half - A - Bottle

cap cap cap off coke mix mix sweet thirst coke the bottle coca-cola lots of- ice double brandy lift glasses cheers! happiness vile brandy brandy...

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374 of my comments have received 375 Great Feedback votes

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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...

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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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Posted in Early Morning Farm

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It doesn't

Posted on Mon, 25 May 2020

It doesn't look like democracy works.

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Posted in Tread Where?

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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...

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My sentiments exactly

Posted on Wed, 20 May 2020

My sentiments exactly. A big thank-you Abc and well done!

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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...

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"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...

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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...

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Posted in This Tide of Ocean (2)

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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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Posted in The Alternative Rainbow.

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