The website was started by [[University of California, Berkeley|Berkeley]] graduate students and postdocs Anton Geraschenko, David Zureick-Brown, and ScottKim Morrison on 28 September 2009 based on the idea of Sándor Kovács's NSF CAREER Grant.<ref name=keller/> The hosting was supported by [[Ravi Vakil]].<ref>{{cite news |url = http://www.mercurynews.com/san-jose-neighborhoods/ci_15713739 |newspaper = [[The Mercury News]] |date = August 8, 2010 |title = Stanford and UC Berkeley create massively collaborative math |first = Lisa M. |last = Krieger |access-date = February 21, 2014 |archive-date = March 14, 2016 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160314001737/http://www.mercurynews.com/san-jose-neighborhoods/ci_15713739 |url-status = live }}</ref> The site originally ran on a separate installation of the StackExchange 1.0 software engine; on June 25, 2013, it was integrated in the regular [[Stack Exchange Network]], running SE 2.0.<ref>{{cite web |title = Math Overflow 2.0 |url = http://aperiodical.com/2013/06/mathoverflow-2-0/ |author = Christian Perfect |work = The Aperiodical |date = 25 June 2013 |access-date = 19 February 2014 |archive-date = 1 July 2013 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130701140607/http://aperiodical.com/2013/06/mathoverflow-2-0/ |url-status = live }}</ref>
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== Reception ==
* [[Terence Tao]] compared it to "the venerable newsgroup ''sci.math'', but with more modern, '[[Web 2.0]]' features.".<ref>{{cite web |url = http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/math-overflow/ |title = Math Overflow |author = Terence Tao |date = 20 October 2009 |access-date = 7 October 2011 |archive-date = 30 September 2011 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110930181313/http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/math-overflow/ |url-status = live }}</ref>
* [[John C. Baez]] writes that "website 'Math Overflow' has become a universal clearinghouse for math questions".<ref>{{cite web |author = John C. Baez |url = https://www.ams.org/notices/201003/rtx100300333p.pdf |title = Math Blogs |journal = [[Notices of the American Mathematical Society]] |date = March 2010 |author-link = John C. Baez |page = 333 |volume = 57 |issue = 3 |access-date = 2021-04-28 |archive-date = 2021-05-08 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210508112359/https://www.ams.org/notices/201003/rtx100300333p.pdf |url-status = live }}</ref>
* According to [[Gil Kalai]], MathOverflow "is ran {{sic}} by an energetic and impressive group of very (very very) young people".<ref>{{cite web |url = http://gilkalai.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/math-overflow/ |title = Math Overflow |author = Gil Kalai |date = 13 November 2009 |access-date = 7 October 2011 |archive-date = 5 October 2011 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20111005014547/http://gilkalai.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/math-overflow/ |url-status = live }}</ref>
* [[Jordan Ellenberg]] comments that the website "offers a constantly changing array of new questions" and is "addictive" in a "particularly pure form", as he compares it to the [[Polymath Project]].<ref>{{cite web |url = http://quomodocumque.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/why-math-overflow-works-and-why-it-might-not/ |title = Why Math Overflow works, and why it might not |author = Jordan Ellenberg |date = 17 October 2009 |access-date = 7 October 2011 |archive-date = 2 December 2011 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20111202053236/http://quomodocumque.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/why-math-overflow-works-and-why-it-might-not/ |url-status = live }}</ref>
* Jared Keller in ''[[The Atlantic]]'' writes,: "Math Overflow is almost an anti-social network, focused solely on productively addressing the problems posed by its users." He quotes ScottKim Morrison saying: "Mathematicians as a whole are surprisingly skeptical of many aspects of the modern Internet... In particular, things like [[Facebook]], [[Twitter]], etc. are viewed as enormous wastes of time."<ref name=keller>{{cite magazine |author = Jared Keller |url = https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/09/beyond-facebook-how-the-worlds-mathematicians-organize-online/63422/ |title = Beyond Facebook: How the World's Mathematicians Organize Online |magazine = [[The Atlantic]] |date = 28 September 2010 }}</ref>
