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.
Richard I believe
Posted on Mon, 17 Feb 2020
Richard I believe the harvest moon effect can be explained by the phenomenon of refraction, although I like your romantic approach more!
All the best! Tom Brown
Read full commentPosted in The Strength I Feel
Mine is much the same story
Posted on Tue, 28 Jan 2020
Mine is much the same story Jenny these days I like soft romantic music like panflute and harp and classic guitar etc. But I still like my the Doors and Van Morrison Bob Dylan etc just the same.
Though I must say it's hard to imagine you...
Read full commentPosted in Dancing To A Different Tune
I didn't know quite what
Posted on Wed, 01 Jan 2020
I didn't know quite what to make of this Richard. It is about joy and faith? And life? To be honest I find it a bit strange. Is there meaning in the fact you posted it on New Years day?
Experimenting in one's writing is always a good thing...
Read full commentPosted in Rhapsody
Very good! Informative too
Posted on Fri, 03 Jan 2020
Very good! Informative too, thanks Luigi! Must say the image of a lantern and the form/shape is brilliant. One gets that right only now and then and even seldom.
I hope we'll see more of these! Tom
Read full commentPosted in A Chinese Lantern
Makes one think
Posted on Fri, 10 May 2019
Makes one think- in the end we all fall and shatter unseen- irreversable. Like a mirror.
Cheers Robert! Long life! Tom Brown
Read full commentPosted in We refract - a poem
Simple and very sincere
Posted on Tue, 31 Dec 2019
Simple and very sincere a beautiful poem Richard! Such a gesture means a lot to a woman. They appreciate it always it makes her feel special. I agree with you about the donations my brother also does his due each year religiously. Doesn't have to...
Read full commentPosted in For My Wife
I am very sorry to hear
Posted on Thu, 26 Dec 2019
I am very sorry to hear of the misfortune Richard. It is terribly sad. We are with you and loved ones in our thoughts and prayers and we too hope for recovery. Everything is possible with God.
The Browns
Read full commentPosted in Dear Jesus
You must know how to work out
Posted on Sat, 28 Dec 2019
You must know how to work out the inside (obtuse) angles? It's very easy and quite neat. The same idea works for all regular polygons i.e 60o triangles, the square, pentagon hexagon and so on etc. Was it Archimedes that showed how these regular...
Read full commentPosted in Decagon
Serves them right
Posted on Mon, 23 Dec 2019
Serves them right.
Read full commentPosted in Run and Run Some More
The opening paragraph
Posted on Sat, 21 Dec 2019
The opening paragraph sounds so very familiar like the time I broke a beautiful wooden dining chair in half by accident, or when my buddies and me were playing and I ran the front door from its hinges, or we got drunk and smoked cigarettes and my...
Read full commentPosted in Peace on earth
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