Tom Brown
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I have 256 stories published in
22 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 284260 times
and 18 of my stories have been cherry picked.
370 of my 2,706 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 372 votes

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.
insect photography
Posted on Tue, 26 Nov 2024
My one uncle photographs of insects for some very well respected thick glossy expensive hardcover books, all of it science stuff. Lately he has been studying dung beetles we've got all kinds here. What a strange interest? I haven't seen photos....
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South African
Posted on Thu, 21 Nov 2024
Ja, Inderdaad. Maar ek is nie 'n Engelsman ook nie 'n Duitser nie, ek is 'n Suid Afrikaner! Yebo!
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Two little boys
Posted on Fri, 07 May 2021
Two little boys had two little toys! A favourite it's like me and my brother. Some people just never grow up! Tom
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WITS
Posted on Fri, 01 Nov 2024
I don't understand what it is that makes you think I want something from you?
Read full commentPosted in Uncle Justice
paradox
Posted on Sun, 13 Oct 2024
Come to think of it, "I don't exist" is a paradox, congratulations I believe it must be the shortest paradox there is.
Cheers! Tom
Read full commentPosted in I DON'T EXIST
positive!
Posted on Tue, 12 Nov 2024
Lovely! What a beuatiful optimistic look on Autumn! Excellent desripitions of nature!
All the best! Tom
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I like the idea
Posted on Thu, 31 Oct 2024
I like the idea of a halloween spirit can't be seen, and is not always evil. The rhyme scheme is is excsellent. I wonder how you did it?
Quite sophisticated Luigi! Good.
Cheers! Tom
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Very positive
Posted on Tue, 29 Oct 2024
Very positive, optimistic, inspiring , "Listen, can you hear it? A symphony formed",, "in a symphony that never ends".
I like all your poems - a lot. Great minds think alike! Still have yet to check up the link.
Keep well! Tom...
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me too!
Posted on Mon, 07 Oct 2024
All the best Jenny! Tom
Read full commentPosted in Magic Of Youth
Only been there
Posted on Fri, 25 Oct 2024
Only been there once but this sounds like England for sure! Tom
Read full commentPosted in Tumultuous Autumn
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