Thanks for the cool recommendation! It looks like James Gleick has written a couple of other interesting books, namely:

"Chaos: Making a New Science"

and

"Time Travel"

p.s. you've inspired me to start keeping track of interesting HN search filters, for example- book recommendations.

https://github.com/sleaze/hn-search-filters

I know I've forgotten some interesting ones, hence this effort to organize.