It could be post-exercise elation or the caffeine, but I found this excerpt from The Guardian particularly amusing today: Can the Hawking Index tell us when people give up on books? It's a tongue and cheek reference to this WSJ article from Dr. Jordan Ellenberg, a professor of mathematics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Both are great reads over your morning coffee or afternoon tea.
For me, it's not the Kindle reads I fail to finish. It's the random library book or hard copy in hand. Perhaps I could start a model of probability to finish a book based on its library shelf position. I have 28 shelves containing books neither arranged by author nor title but loosely arranged by genre. If I cataloged the read vs unread (and indeed read more than once), would I find anything interesting? I might need to check yours as well to be statistically significant.
Have a great mathematical Monday.
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