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Hawking Index en · PROPN

Etymology

Invented by American mathematician Jordan Ellenberg in 2014, and named after English theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, whose book A Brief History of Time (1988) has been called “the most unread book of all time”.

Meanings

  1. A humorous measure of how far people will, on average, read through a particular book before giving up.
    • The mathematician Ellenberg has developed the Hawking Index, but according to his own statements only for entertainment and not for scientific purposes. 2024, Jan Krone, Tassilo Pellegrini, editors, Handbook of Media and Communication Economics: A European Perspective, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 703:

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wikipedia: A Brief History of Time · wikipedia: Jordan Ellenberg