Tom Brown

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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

∫iv A perfect game of Chess

In principle finding a perfect chess game seems to be a reasonably straightforward formulated problem in discrete mathematics. To find a method and...

Dear friend Paddington

 Master Paddington Bear 32 Windsor Gardens London England My dear friend Paddington! Thanks for your letter and coming to visit us. You're already...

South-African Pastimes

Why have a picnic when you can put the table cloth under the table sit on the floor and throw sand over the food? On a sunny day by the seaside...

Best Paddington

Master Paddington Bear c/o The Browns 32 Windsor Gardens London England Dear Padinton! A Padintin movie! A film star! You're getting on in the world...

Dear Paddington

Master Paddington Bear c/o The Browns 32 Windsor Gardens London England Dear Paddinton You were on TV you are a celeb now a trendsetter! Nice navy...

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387 of my comments have received 388 Great Feedback votes

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I asked my love

Posted on Mon, 28 Jan 2019

I asked my love to take a walk just a little walk, down where the waters flow, down by the banks of the old Iho. Do you know the song Parson? Your poem also reminds me of "Diep Rivier" of Eugene Marais.

Your poem's tragic end is masterly...

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This is really lovely

Posted on Thu, 24 Jan 2019

This is really lovely Donna! So beautiful in its simplicity. The kind of poem I most like to read.

Keep well! Tom

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Posted in The Hills

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Lost on the internet

Posted on Fri, 25 Jan 2019

So true &

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Posted in 21st Century Kids

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This one guy

Posted on Thu, 24 Jan 2019

This one guy called a friend of mine "deep" so he answered "Then you must be shallow". Reminds of Shakespeare hey? Fascinating dialogue yes. Couragous. And originail is it? Good idea- to keep it short. Good idea yes.

Tom Brown

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Posted in FactoidMan and ShallowMan

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wine

Posted on Sat, 15 Dec 2018

Indeed. Drunkenness and anger speak truthfully -Old African proverb

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Posted in In Vino Veritas

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I didn't know of this jelly

Posted on Mon, 26 Nov 2018

I didn't know of this little jelly blob thing 'till I got blind in one eye for about 2 minutes at work, so later I went to see a doctor he looked he said it's fine the same story as yours. He's got machines and stuff. It happens to everybody they...

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Sala kahle!

Posted on Sat, 10 Nov 2018

“Sala kahle” is a Zulu greeting for goodbye. It says “stay well”. For “go well” the greeting is “hamba kahle!”

I gave an attempted phonetic English spelling. I am learning isiZulu it's going slowly but steadily. I find it very difficult....

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Posted in In That Moment

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Sounds good!

Posted on Thu, 15 Nov 2018

Sounds good! We don't ever get snow here in South-Africa. Never. Most of us haven't even ever seen snow. Only when it's terribly cold sometimes it snows on the mountains. The Cape mountains and the Drakensberg. There in the northern hemishere is...

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Posted in LET THE SEASONS

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It sounds like a fairy tale

Posted on Tue, 13 Nov 2018

It sounds like a fairy tale. It's good to hear of a success story but there must be a lot give-and-take. Not all moonshine and roses hey!? Do you have other kids Richard?

Keep well! Tom Brown

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Posted in IT WAS A NIGHT

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Two men look through

Posted on Sat, 03 Nov 2018

Two men look through the same bars, the one sees the mud, the other the stars.

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Posted in WHAT I SEE

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