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*According to [[Gil Kalai]], Math Overflow "is ran [sic] by an energetic and impressive group of very (very very) young people".<ref>[http://gilkalai.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/math-overflow/ Math Overflow], Gil Kalai's blog, November 13, 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#Polymath_Project|PolyMath project]].<ref>[http://quomodocumque.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/why-math-overflow-works-and-why-it-might-not/ Why Math Overflow works, and why it might not], Jordan Ellenberg's blog, 17 October, 2009.</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." ItThe article 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>Jared Keller, [http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/09/beyond-facebook-how-the-worlds-mathematicians-organize-online/63422/ Beyond Facebook: How the World's Mathematicians Organize Online].</ref>

== See also ==