Hawking Index

English Etymology Invented by American mathematician Jordan Ellenberg in 2014, and en English theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking = 1, whose book A Brief History of Time (1988) has been called “the most unread book of all time”. Proper noun Hawking index 1 A humorous measure of how far people will, on average, read through a particular book before giving up. en 2024 Jan Krone; Tassilo Pellegrini Handbook of Media and Communication Economics: A European Perspective Springer Nature 9783658399092 703 https://books.google.com/books?id=RtksEQAAQBAJ&pg=PA703&dq=%22Hawking+Index%22&hl=&cd=13&source=gbs_api#v=onepage&q=%22Hawking%20Index%22&f=false The mathematician Ellenberg has developed the Hawking Index, but according to his own statements only for entertainment and not for scientific purposes. Further reading en w:Jordan Ellenberg The Summer's Most Unread Book Is… w:Wall Street Journal 2014-07-03 http://online.wsj.com/articles/the-summers-most-unread-book-is-1404417569 0099-9660 https://web.archive.org/web/20141010112752/http://online.wsj.com/articles/the-summers-most-unread-book-is-1404417569 10 October 2014