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Beyond Paperback – April 14, 2024

by Martin Nowak (Author)
5.0 5.0 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
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Beyond is a Socratic love story, a Platonic dialogue, a Bhagavad Gita of our times: a philosophical quest folded into an epic exploration of the world. Imagine an encounter with unconfused human existence. What does it mean to fall in love with God? Can the Good only adopt the role of a servant, or can it rise to provide a beacon of light ruling us? How often we are caught in the myopic perspective that the material world is all there is! And yet, mathematics and science themselves point to a greater, all-embracing, unchanging reality. This insight suffices to move past selfishness and advance humanity to the next level. Beyond dismantles the artificial borders that have for too long separated genres: here, science confronts philosophy, mathematics engages religion, poetry brings nonfiction to life, time meets infinity. Beyond is sui generis.
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    402 pages
  2. Language
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    April 14, 2024
  4. Dimensions
    6 x 1.01 x 9 inches
  5. ISBN-13
    979-8892800174
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"What a marvelous and fruitful collision of the scientific, poetic, and contemplative temperaments, all in one author and one book. For those who dream of the recovery in our late modern age of an 'integrated vision' of things, uniting natural philosophy and speculative wisdom and spiritual curiosity, Martin Nowak's Beyond is like a reassuring lantern suddenly shining out along a dark path late at night." --DAVID BENTLEY HART, author of Roland in Moonlight

"Martin Nowak's remarkable text Beyond is impossible to categorize as a literary genre. Anyone who has ever wondered about the origins and meaning of the universe must read this book and reflect upon the depth of scientific and theological mysteries it evokes: it is the reader who is challenged, and who cannot remain unchanged by the lure of the narrative." --SARAH COAKLEY, emerita, University of Cambridge

"Beyond is a devotional meditation on God and Love, more poetry than prose, by evolutionary biologist Martin Nowak. His is a Platonic universe where mathematics and truth are the ultimate reality. The meditation moves from Plato to Augustine and Aquinas, to Krishna, Siddhartha, and the Tao." --DAVID HAIG, Harvard University

"The harvest of a lifetime of thinking about religion, science, and their explanations of the world, this book takes the reader on a Socratic journey of infinite discoveries. It is a page-turner to be read and re-read." --WINRICH FREIWALD, Rockefeller University

"Martin Nowak's Beyond is an engaging fusion of science, philosophy, meditative prayer, love story, and mystery. It can be seen as a poetic version of Sophie's World for adults. Its spirituality is unique. You will be thinking, guessing, and smiling until the last page!" --KAMILA NAXEROVA, Harvard Medical School

"The truth is One, Martin Nowak shows us, and it is calling us to communion, even now in the concrete hospital ward of our lives." --JAMES MATTHEW WILSON, University of Saint Thomas

"Beyond is a moving reflection, in poetic form, on fundamental truths in theology, philosophy, mathematics, and the natural sciences. The book will speak powerfully to readers with or without prior knowledge of its themes." --JOSEPH LAPORTE, Hope College

"Martin Nowak's Beyond may be one of the most idiosyncratic, original, and marvelous works of poetry I have read in a very long time. Astonishment inhabits every line. I came away from it in a state of wonder." --MICHAEL MARTIN, Center for Sophiological Studies

"In precise, almost haunting language, a world-leading mathematician attempts to help his readers find God. Martin Nowak's poetic quest for truth is a radiant distillation of philosophy and science, a journey sparkling with insight. Whatever their conception of God may be, readers brave enough to open their minds and hearts will not fail to be moved." --OREN HARMAN, author of The Price of Altruism

"Beyond is an awe-filled contemplation of some of the greatest questions science, religion, and philosophy can ask." --GABRIELA LOBINSKA, Weizmann Institute of Science

About the Author

MARTIN NOWAK is Professor of Mathematics and Biology at Harvard University. He is a leading researcher in the areas of theoretical and evolutionary biology. He has proposed that cooperation is the third fundamental principle of evolution, alongside mutation and selection. His work has helped to create fields such as evolutionary dynamics, virus dynamics, mathematical oncology, and evolution of cooperation. He has published more than 500 papers and four books. For many years, Martin has also been working in the domain of Science and Religion. Before coming to Harvard in 2003, he held professorships at the University of Oxford and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. In 2015, he received the honorary degree Doctor of Humane Letters from the Dominican School of Philosophy & Theology at Berkeley. He is Roman Catholic.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0D1PDXLMF
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Angelico Press (April 14, 2024)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 402 pages
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8892800174
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.3 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.01 x 9 inches
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David Schuy
5.0 out of 5 stars This is a MASTERPIECE of its OWN GENRE!
Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2024
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Professor Doktor Martin A. Nowak wrote with this masterpiece down a piece of his soul and his innermost heart. Beyond is its own genre. Beyond is a Platonic love story, a dialogue with the eternal feminine divine. She is outside of space and time. Everything there is to know, she knows. She's there when you need her. She can comfort you in the darkest hours of loneliness.
She, the eternal, non-temporal, and feminine Divine aspect, has an incredibly sacred connection to Martin Nowak.
But he manages to not only write about religion and God.
Martin Nowak writes about very current mathematical evolutionary dynamics. He is a mathematician of the first rank and knows exactly the research and state of knowledge about evolutionary game theory and the so-called five mechanisms of cooperation.
But he also describes the philosophy of mathematics wonderfully. Here an arc is drawn from the deepest Platonic mathematical beliefs and the associated measurable empirical science in biology etc.
A must read for people who want to be inspired by the indescribable!
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5.0 out of 5 stars I am so happy this book exists!
Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2024
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BEYOND is a book that is full of light and hope. Its message is universal, it is that of kindness, peace and above all Love, unconditional Love. The book feels like a prayer, it is soul cleansing. Reading BEYOND makes you pause and think about deep questions of life, science, philosophy and religion. BEYOND is an encounter with the good that exists in the world. If you read it carefully, you will be challenged, exhilarated and led beyond… I am so happy to have this book! I am so happy that BEYOND exists.
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Daniel
5.0 out of 5 stars Dialog and dialogues…
Reviewed in the Netherlands on May 7, 2024
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Interesting book, from a researcher with excellent work in mathematics—a co-author of late Robert May. Readers may so want to have a look at an earlier, shorter dialog: https://www.amazon.com/Dialog-between-curves-homage-Leonardo/dp/B0CWF9ZP6L This is a shorter dialog published a year before Nowak’s and available from Amazon for less than 5 dollars!
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David Schuy
5.0 out of 5 stars Martin Nowak's MEISTERWERK in seinem ganz eigenen Genre!
Reviewed in Germany on April 29, 2024
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Professor Doktor Martin A. Nowak schrieb mit diesem Meisterwerk ein Stück seiner Seele und seines innersten Herzens nieder. Beyond ist sein eigenes Genre. Beyond ist eine platonische Liebesgeschichte, ein Dialog mit dem ewig weiblichen Göttlichen. Dieses ist außerhalb von Raum und Zeit. Alles, was es zu wissen gibt, weiß sie. Sie ist da, wenn du sie brauchst. Sie vermag dich zu trösten in dunkelsten Stunden der Einsamkeit.
Sie, das ewig, nicht-zeitliche (atemporale), und der weibliche Göttliche Aspekt, hat eine unglaublich heilige Verbindung zu Martin Nowak.
Doch er schafft es, nicht nur über Religion und Gott zu schreiben.
Martin Nowak schreibt über ganz aktuelle mathematische evolutionäre Dynamik. Er ist ein Mathematiker ersten Ranges und kennt genau die Forschung und den Wissensstand über die evolutionäre Spieltheorie und die sogenannten fünf Mechanismen der Kooperation.
Auch beschreibt er wunderbar die Philosophie der Mathematik. Hier wird ein Bogen gespannt von tiefstem platonischen mathematischen Glauben und damit verbundener messbarer empirischer Wissenschaft in Biologie etc.
Ein Lese Muss für Menschen, die inspiriert werden wollen vom Unbeschreiblichen!
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