Hawking Index

== English == === 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”. === Proper noun === the Hawking Index A humorous measure of how far people will, on average, read through a particular book before giving up. === Further reading === Jordan Ellenberg (3 July 2014), “The Summer's Most Unread Book Is…”, in Wall Street Journal‎[1], →ISSN