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{{Short description|Mathematics question and answer website}}
'''MathOverflow''' is a [[mathematics]] [[Comparison of Q&A sites|question-and-answer (Q&A) website]], which serves as an [[online community]] of [[mathematician]]s. It allows users to ask questions, submit answers, and rate both, all while getting merit points for their activities.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/17/science/open-science-challenges-journal-tradition-with-web-collaboration.html|title=Cracking Open the Scientific Process|first=Thomas|last=Lin|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=January 16, 2012}}</ref> It is a part of the [[Stack Exchange Network]], but distinct from [https://math.stackexchange.com].
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}}
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