Tom Heap

Thomas John Gillespie "Tom" Heap (born 6 January 1966) is the Rural Affairs Correspondent of BBC News, and a United Kingdom television and radio reporter and presenter best known for his contributions to the BBC One programme Countryfile, the same channel's Panorama programme, and the BBC Radio 4 programme Costing the Earth. Since February 2012, he has also been Director and media presenter of the media company Checked Shirt TV Limited.

Early life

Thomas John Gillespie Heap was born on 6 January 1966, and is the son of John Arnfield Heap, a former scientific adviser who became the head of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's Polar Regions Section (from 1975-1992), and Margaret Grace Gillespie Spicer, known as 'Peg', the daughter of Captain Sir Stewart Spicer, Baronet, of the Royal Navy. He has two sisters.

Education

Heap was educated at Oakham School, a boarding and day independent school in the market town of Oakham in Rutland in central England, where he was trained to abseil by the Ministry of Defence's Lieutenant M.B. Rochester of the Combined Cadet Force (CCF), and won a Bronze Award in The Duke of Edinburgh Award in 1980.

Heap (mathematics)

In abstract algebra, a heap (sometimes also called a groud) is a mathematical generalization of a group. Informally speaking, a heap is obtained from a group by "forgetting" which element is the unit, in the same way that an affine space can be viewed as a vector space in which the 0 element has been "forgotten". A heap is essentially the same thing as a torsor, and the category of heaps is equivalent to the category of torsors, with morphisms given by transport of structure under group homomorphisms, but the theory of heaps emphasizes the intrinsic composition law, rather than global structures such as the geometry of bundles.

Formally, a heap is an algebraic structure consisting of a non-empty set H with a ternary operation denoted that satisfies

A group can be regarded as a heap under the operation . Conversely, let H be a heap, and choose an element e ∈ H. The binary operation makes H into a group with identity e and inverse . A heap can thus be regarded as a group in which the identity has yet to be decided.

Tom

Tom or TOM may refer to:

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Tom (pattern matching language)

Tom is a programming language particularly well-suited for programming various transformations on tree structures and XML based documents. Tom is a language extension which adds new matching primitives to C and Java as well as support for rewrite rules systems. The rules can be controlled using a strategy language.

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Tom (footballer, born 1987)

António Sérgio Lopes Tavares (born 12 June 1987), simply known as Tom is a Cape Verdian professional footballer playing for Oriental in Portugal as a midfielder.

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