English Explanatory Dictionary

Hawking Index

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A humorous measure of how far people will, on average, read through a particular book before giving up.

Word forms

Hawking Index the Hawking Index

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”.

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