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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 }}</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 = httphttps://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 }}</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 }}</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 }}</ref>