Tom Brown

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My stories have been read 303146 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

∫i First moves

The perfect game in Chess would be that of the best first move answered by the best move, replied again by best and then the best once more. The age...

Love & Chess

Chess is the ultimate board game but one could easily overdo it. Especially youngsters because the ambition always is to be the best, to be world...

A Mustard Seed and the Kingdom of Heaven

Whereunto shall we liken the kingdom of God or with what comparison shall we compare it? It is like a grain of mustard seed, which when it is sown in...
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To Exist

I don't see God! You must be looking in the wrong direction. I can't find God! Was He lost then? Prove to me God exists! He can prove it Himself! -...

A Heaven round the Stars

Fascination with the beauty of night skies is as old as humanity itself. Observations and study of the stars is as old as the earliest peoples as is...

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374 of my comments have received 375 Great Feedback votes

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Yes it should rather read

Posted on Mon, 07 Aug 2017

Yes it should rather read "You, me, Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie" since he was a folk singer and Bob Dylan's idol and inspiration. And how does "You, I and Woody . . ." sound? It is fake this " I " business in all the movies no-one talks like that...

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Keep the Faith!

Posted on Tue, 24 Nov 2015

Keep the Faith!

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Posted in Jacques: Whole of the Moon

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Not bad at all!

Posted on Mon, 28 Nov 2016

Fun! Not doggerel nor is your rhyme forced in any way. To me it seems incredibly hard to write good poetry that rhymes. It looks like genius or just plain luck or then even divine inspiration. Allthough I guess like anything else worthwile it is...

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hippies

Posted on Mon, 19 Dec 2016

The idle rich, as opposed to the idle poor.

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Posted in DOWNTOWN ABBEY edith 1970

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interesting

Posted on Wed, 24 Aug 2016

This is very interesting.

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Posted in Dance in Dao

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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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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

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Posted in This Is What I Call A Free Express ¨Your Feelings Zone!!¨

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Sounds like fun

Posted on Thu, 30 Oct 2014

You just need to get the pronanciation right, it's "dood".

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Posted in The Tree and the Bird Man

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the point

Posted on Fri, 11 Jul 2014

The point of a point is to be a point.

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Posted in Friday prayers

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good advise

Posted on Sat, 22 Mar 2014

Thanks Nolan, see you around. Tom

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Posted in Frogs in the milk

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