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 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.
International Youth Science Fortnight
Posted on Thu, 12 Sep 2019
Yes Rhiannon I attended the international youth science fortnight in London in 1983 I could attend because I had a top place in our National Science Olympiad. The next year I achieved an even higher place but was unable to attend again.
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A lovely sketch of sleep
Posted on Sat, 07 Sep 2019
A lovely sketch of sleep and peace, which I think in the end is what we all really long for.
Keep well Richard! Peaceful sleep, sweet sleep!
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Very appropriate Richard!
Posted on Sat, 31 Aug 2019
Very appropriate Richard! Today is Spring day down south!
1 September
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Good. I will check them out.
Posted on Tue, 27 Aug 2019
Good. I will check them out.
Goodnight!
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You must have a lot
Posted on Tue, 27 Aug 2019
You must have a lot of patience Richard. Live and let live hey? Must be a calling caring for the elderly.
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Terrible
Posted on Thu, 15 Aug 2019
Terrible. Unstoppable. Inevitable. A very nice poem, in a nutshell!
All the best! Tom Brown
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The Amazon rainforests
Posted on Sat, 17 Aug 2019
The Amazon rainforests' wildlife you may stand a chance Luigi but you can forget about it's tribes. The western way of life the greed and yearning for comfort and ease is taking over everywhere. It seems unstoppable. As for the planting of trees...
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Excellent
Posted on Mon, 12 Aug 2019
Excellent!
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Beautiful except the ending
Posted on Mon, 12 Aug 2019
Beautiful except the ending? Was it really meant so? An anticlamax. It is terrible.
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The Internet Writer
Posted on Wed, 14 Aug 2019
Jacques also has some very practical advice and he gave me the idea of writing this post.
https://www.abctales.com/blog/baker-street/internet-writer...
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