Welcome To Brainwaves

BRAINWAVES is a one man think tank inaugurated by Martin Mosse in 1998.

Its primary aim is to foster the progressively disappearing art of Thinking, and to promote alternative approaches to some of the issues of today, in fields as diverse as economics, New Testament history, theology, philosophy and mathematical education. (On the significance of the logo click here.)

MARTIN MOSSE was born in 1950 and holds degrees in classics (M.A., Oxon), Mathematics (B.Sc., Open), and theology (Ph.D., Wales). Having made his career doing operational research in the defence industry, his first book - his revised doctoral thesis, The

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Three Gospels: New Testament History Introduced by the Synoptic Problem - was published by Paternoster in 2007.

He is currently working on a mathematical textbook, e, i & p, described in report BW/003 which features in Section II below.

His other interests include photography, map postcards, family history, the poetry of Robert Browning, knots and Pilates. He is married to Barbara, who is a priest and writes books, and has a yellow Labrador called Frodo, who isn't and doesn't.

The principal contents of this website are:

I. Booklets and Leaflets

Items that have previously been issued as A5 booklets or leaflets.

II. BRAINWAVES reports

Serious discussions of diverse topics in the BW/nnn series, as available.

III. The Three Gospels: New Testament History Introduced by the Synoptic Problem

Martin's revised doctoral thesis: abstract and reviewers' comments.

IV. Explorations

Grapplings along the way.

V. Bipolarity.

Reflections arising from Martin's experience of bipolar disorder.

VI. Quotations

Some of Martin's favourite quotations from other writers.

VII. Odds and Ends

Short and not very serious.

VIII. Favourite Websites

A Miscellany

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