Tom Brown
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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.
Family
Posted on Tue, 24 Nov 2015
They say you can choose your friends ... Yes all of our fates are entwined forever all of us on Abc too.
Thanks for the comment! Tom
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plus interest
Posted on Mon, 24 Nov 2014
Plus interest.
Read full commentPosted in our dues
well said
Posted on Fri, 27 Feb 2015
I like the picture.
Read full commentPosted in the world of the deaf
be strong and of a good courage
Posted on Thu, 16 Oct 2014
Our parents gave me a Bible for my 10th birthday and I still use the same one. I was given a pocket sized Bible in 2010 by my brother I always carry it on me, where-ever I go.
I wrote inside the front cover the verse Joshua 1:9
"Be...
Read full commentPosted in the little black bible
Ok let's get started!
Posted on Tue, 28 Oct 2014
My day wasn't bad, weather was warm and sunny. Random thought of the day:
"24/7 you should give the computer a break get some exercise and fresh air tell someone you like them."
Keep well! Tom
Read full commentPosted in This Is What I Call A Free Express ¨Your Feelings Zone!!¨
Sounds like fun
Posted on Thu, 30 Oct 2014
You just need to get the pronanciation right, it's "dood".
Read full commentPosted in The Tree and the Bird Man
at peace
Posted on Tue, 23 Sep 2014
Grandfather (Oupa) Jacques de Vos. He was a brilliant engineer, he was a legend in his time.
Read full commentPosted in the passing of the torch
the point
Posted on Fri, 11 Jul 2014
The point of a point is to be a point.
Read full commentPosted in Friday prayers
good advise
Posted on Sat, 22 Mar 2014
Thanks Nolan, see you around. Tom
Read full commentPosted in Frogs in the milk
knock-knock knockin' on heaven's door
Posted on Tue, 27 May 2014
'The grey mist descends, caressing, seducing. Life trickles out of me.' "Feels like I'm knocking on heaven's door."
Excellent poem. You catch the mood perfectly. Keep well. Tom Brown
PS. But perhaps it's a love poem? In which case I...
Read full commentPosted in How I died
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