You've pretty much sold me on the book - though I started to get worried when you mentioned simplicity after that equation. Because to me, that doesn't look simple. But the rest of it convinced me!

I like books like that - where the key element is science but it's the story of it or its impact. Where I can feel that I came away learning something without feeling like I was stupid / talked down to during it.

Essentially, over the last year, especially after reading Blum, I realized that history in general terms isn't the only type of history that's interesting and that I can read a history science book and enjoy it.