Beautiful People
By Tom Brown
Rainbow Soldiers
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A mathematical defence
Having grown up in a rural Afrikaner community Prof Sauer once told me the following story:
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A Tribute to Selby Logan
In Memory of Selby Logan ( 1934 – 2007 ) Pretoria , August 2007 (Originally) Thank-you for the privilege to speak on behalf of the Brown family. To...
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Jacques: Picking up pebbles
Picking up pebbles and throwing them into the sea See the days of my childhood The white foam comes washing them all back to me When he was still a...
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Jacques: Whole of the Moon
My brother is a lover and a poet, an unashamed dreamer with a brilliant fearless imagination. I saw the crescent, you saw the whole of the Moon –...
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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...
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Mamma
She worked for the education department for more than forty years. At the start it was mostly private companies and computer programming. These were...
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Mr B and The E.
The Kruger Park Just graduated and full of love of abstraction enthusiasm and vigour I attended my first conference, paid for entirely with saved pocket money.
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Mr P and Mr B
There I fell in love with his daughter but soon found him much more interesting company. Since my friends and those guys said he was a master “ 'n...
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My Father
My father could be a pig. My father was fat and sweaty and shiny. He was a slob. He was dirty, ugly and nasty, crude and obscene. He could get rowdy...
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The Mathematician
One could go to his office with a problem anytime. It was correspondence university so there weren't too many students to be a bother. You could ask...
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19th Hole
Tried golf I never really understood the rules, except for the 19th hole but always got a high score. It's a senseless pastime I was more into...
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The Engineers
Jacks is the only guy I know of who hit a lecturer. Jacks is a big strong man they had an argument he punched the guy in the face with the fist. Look...
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SuperSneaker
One friday after school I was short a player for a league match the guy dropped me I had to fill my team. The Sneaker joked he knew the moves I put...
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The escape artist
Budgies don't sing but a happily chit-chatter hopping around all the time chatting pleasantly very much like sparrows. A brain as big as half a pea a...
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The Oupa and the Sea
My Afrikaans Grandfather Beer and jokes weekend golf and holidays and practising his swing, they said his drive wasn't so far but it was straight. He...
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The Carrot and Stick
I am being motivated by the carrot and the stick. It works. It is the law of the concrete jungle. We've had all kinds, tomatoes pumpkins peanuts...
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A virtuous Woman
To be young a bride your beauty must not be of jewels gold adorning and braiding hair, beauty is vain charm is deceit, favour is fickle, beauty fades...
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The Enigma
Alan Turing (1912 – 54) “ I propose to consider the question 'Can machines think? ” The British mathematician Alan Turing is considered to be greatly...
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The Tiger
You should realise the difference between how someone is addressed and what you call him. For example you might speak of someone as “Mr Brown” but...
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Empathy
Having been accused of reckless driving, once we were working the whole morning and getting tired, Prof Sauer said call it a day for lunch I said “...
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Escape of the Boer Swimmers
During the South African War (October 1899 – May 2002) many Boers were taken prisoner and exiled by the British Army. Most of the prisoner of war...
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