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.
Beautiful!
Posted on Fri, 24 May 2024
Beautiful! Can't wait for pension! Tom
Read full commentPosted in East from Cwm-yr-Eglwys
Typical.
Posted on Wed, 15 May 2024
Typical. Impatient. Very inconsiderate.
Should rather enjoy the walk.
Posted in Time-out Spot
We have similar here
Posted on Tue, 30 Apr 2024
We have similar here Rhiannon but they are regarded as a weed, often grow on a road side. "Cosmos" something like that. I like all the pruple makes me think of our Jacaranda City. what a spectacle in October.
Congratulations with the...
Read full commentPosted in Columbine
Original! Intriguing!
Posted on Sat, 27 Apr 2024
Original! Intriguing! Certainly, but I like it you have imagination,
Cheers Luigi! Tom
Read full commentPosted in Doodles
The promised land
Posted on Tue, 23 Apr 2024
The promised land. Jip. This is the land of milk and honey, do some work in a garden for a morning, go to the grocers and buy a 2 liter of milk and a jar of honey. What else than? Not for everyone unfortunately, depends on your country I guess,...
Read full commentPosted in Life's fuel
There are so many comments
Posted on Tue, 23 Apr 2024
There are so many comments perhaps my effort is repeated, but apparanly this yougurt and the clean fresh mountain air prolongs your liefspan greatly, often people live to 110 years and longer.
Cheers! Tom
Read full commentPosted in Lactobacillus Bulgaricus or Bust!
Lyrical, almost ecstatic!
Posted on Sat, 20 Apr 2024
Lyrical, almost ecstatic! You trancend yourself losing yourself into the beauty of the scenery.
All the best! Tom
Read full commentPosted in Yellow Blooms Of Late May
I'm a scorpio
Posted on Sat, 20 Apr 2024
I'm a scorpio too so watch out!
Read full commentPosted in Killing Scorpio - Part Two
Not very cheerful
Posted on Sat, 24 Dec 2022
Not very cheerful, “Like a spanner in the works” is a good one, “Like a lie inside the truth” a very dangerous thing, deadly, as a half-truth, and “Like a clock that’s stopped” ominous. The chorus says it all.
“Hell” is a nice swear word...
Read full commentPosted in Like Hell
Everything is relative
Posted on Sat, 06 Apr 2024
Everything is relative hey? Eg in all sizes from astronomical to microscopic doesn't look like there's an end to it either way.
By the way a common misconception, you cannot deviate the course of a astroid with any nuclear bomb, the...
Read full commentPosted in The Can Guru Lectures #314
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