Hawking Index

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Etymology

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

Proper noun

the Hawking Index

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