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BOOKS BY CHRISTOPHER DONALD COOPER
These books have been written by Christopher Donald Cooper. They are in PDF format and are free for anyone to download. Click on the tabs above for an expanded description.
Some of these books will be available on KINDLE, for a few dollars, in a more user-friendly e-book format but, for copyright reasons, I have had to remove the images (apart from the covers) as these have been appropriated from the internet. If any copyright owner wishes me to remove their image from this website I am happy to do so.
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This novel is a fantasy, inspired by Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, or to give it its original title, Alice's Adventures Underground. It is suitable for children from about age nine, and especially for adults with whimsical tastes.
Unlike like Alice in Wonderland it is set in the real world, England and Scotland in the past, present and future. It has no talking animals. Well except for Galois, a swashbuckling beaver. The white rabbit is really a monk, with a white robe and a twitching nose.
The main difference between this and Alice is that this is the story of a quest, the search for the magic Ring of Ramanujan, the ring that supposedly gave this famous, self-taught, mathematician, the man who knew infinity his uncanny mathematical insight.
This novel is a nostalgic autobiography by proxy, spread over two generations. It is inspired by Wuthering Heights and contains numerous references to it. It isn't necessary to have read Emily Brontë's novel to appreciate mine but you will get a lot more out of it if you have read it.
It is set in the New England area of NSW, as well as parts of Greater Sydney, from 1940 to 1980. The main theme is the PQR theory of relationships between the sexes.
This is an account of Christian theology from the point of view of a mathematician. My main thesis is that there is a strong similarity between mathematics and theology. Mathematicians can't prove anything from nothing. They must begin with certain statements that seem reasonable but cannot be proved. These are called axioms. They are not unlike a religious creed. I point out that there are many unprovable assumptions that we make in ordinary life, such as the assumption that there exists an external world outside of what goes on in my mind, that you have consciousness and that we all have free will.
As a lay preacher in the Uniting Church I have told numerous children's stories over the years. Many are very simple stories, some are very deep and have gone over the heads of the children. Also I have developed a number of dialogues and short plays which I use in place of the sermon. This book is a collection of these stories and plays. Jesus found it much easier to get his point across with his parables and I hope that readers may find these theatrical pieces useful in exploring the deep questions of life.
This book is a serious mathematics book, but not one for professional mathematicians. It would suit someone who has reasonable proficiency in high school mathematics but who is willing to have his or her imagination expanded. It discusses those parts of mathematics where logic gets stretched almost to breaking point.
The chapter titles indicate the nature of the book. They include:
THE IMAGINARY, THE IMPOSSIBLE, THE INFINITE, THE UNCOUNTABLE, THE UNIMAGINABLE, THE UNSOLVABLE, THE UNCOMPUTABLE, THE UNDECIDABLE, THE INEFFABLE
Because it can be a bit heavy going, each chapter concludes with something in a lighter vein, such as a poem, a story, a radio play or a puzzle.
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