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{{Short description|Mathematics question and answer website}}
'''MathOverflow''' is
It is primarily for asking questions on mathematics research – i.e. related to [[List of unsolved problems in mathematics|unsolved problems]] and the extension of knowledge of mathematics into areas that are not yet known – and does not welcome requests from non-mathematicians for instruction, for example [[Homework|homework exercises]]. It does welcome various questions on other topics that might normally be discussed among mathematicians, for example about [[Academic publishing|publishing]], [[Peer review|refereeing]], [[Doctoral advisor|advising]], getting [[Tenure (academic)|tenure]], etc. It is generally inhospitable to questions perceived as tendentious or argumentative.{{citation needed|date=November 2020}}
== Origin and history ==
The website was started by [[University of California, Berkeley|Berkeley]] graduate students and postdocs Anton Geraschenko, David Zureick-Brown, and
=== Naming ===
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== Usage ==
As of April 4, 2012, there
In 2011, questions were answered an average of 3.9 hours after they were posted, and "Acceptable" answers took an average of 5.01 hours.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.mathcs.emory.edu/~dzb/slides/MO_slides.pdf |author = David Zureick-Brown |title = MathOverflow (presentation slides) |date = 29 March 2011 |access-date = 25 March 2013 |archive-date = 15 January 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150115110318/http://www.mathcs.emory.edu/~dzb/slides/MO_slides.pdf |url-status = live }}</ref>
== Reception ==
*[[John C. Baez]] writes that "website 'Math Overflow' has become a universal clearinghouse for math questions".<ref>{{cite web |author = [[John C. Baez]] |url = http://www.ams.org/notices/201003/rtx100300333p.pdf |title = Math Blogs |publisher = ''[[Notices of the American Mathematical Society|Notices of the AMS]]'' |date = March 2010 }}</ref>▼
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▲* [[John C. Baez]] writes that "website 'Math Overflow' has become a universal clearinghouse for math questions".<ref>{{cite web |author =
*[[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 }}</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>
*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 Scott 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>{{cite web |author = Jared Keller |url = http://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 |publisher = ''[[The Atlantic]]'' |date = 28 September 2010 }}</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
== See also ==
* [[nLab]]
* [[PhysicsOverflow]]
== Notes ==
{{reflist|30em}}
==Further reading==
*{{cite conference
| last1 = Tausczik | first1 = Yla R.
| last2 = Kittur | first2 = Aniket
| last3 = Kraut | first3 = Robert E.
| contribution = Collaborative Problem Solving: A Study of MathOverflow
| doi = 10.1145/2531602.2531690
| isbn = 978-1-4503-2540-0
| ___location = New York, NY, USA
| pages = 355–367
| publisher = ACM
| title = Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW '14), Baltimore, Maryland, USA
| year = 2014}}
*{{cite conference
| last1 = Montoya | first1 = Leydi Viviana
| last2 = Ma | first2 = Athen
| last3 = Mondragón | first3 = Raúl J.
| editor1-last = Ghoshal | editor1-first = Gourab
| editor2-last = Poncela-Casasnovas | editor2-first = Julia
| editor3-last = Tolksdorf | editor3-first = Robert
| contribution = Social Achievement and Centrality in MathOverflow
| doi = 10.1007/978-3-642-36844-8_3
| ___location = Berlin and Heidelberg
| pages = 27–38
| publisher = Springer
| title = Complex Networks IV: Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Complex Networks (CompleNet 2013)
| year = 2013}}
*{{cite conference
| last1 = Martin | first1 = Ursula
| last2 = Pease | first2 = Alison
| editor1-last = Carette | editor1-first = Jacques
| editor2-last = Aspinall | editor2-first = David
| editor3-last = Lange | editor3-first = Christoph
| editor4-last = Sojka | editor4-first = Petr
| editor5-last = Windsteiger | editor5-first = Wolfgang
| contribution = Mathematical Practice, Crowdsourcing, and Social Machines
| doi = 10.1007/978-3-642-39320-4_7
| ___location = Berlin and Heidelberg
| pages = 98–119
| publisher = Springer
| series = Lecture Notes in Computer Science
| title = Intelligent Computer Mathematics: MKM, Calculemus, DML, and Systems and Projects 2013, Held as Part of the International Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics (CICM 2013), Bath, UK, July 8-12, 2013, Proceedings
| volume = 7961
| year = 2013| arxiv = 1305.0900
}}
== External links ==
* {{official website}}
* {{cite web |url =
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