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'''Math Overflow''' is an [[interactive]] [[mathematics]] [[website]], which serves both as a [[collaborative blog]] and an [[online community]] of [[mathematician]]s. It allows users to ask questions, submit answers, and rate both, all while getting [[brownie points]] for their activities. It is modeled after [[Stack Overflow]], a similar forum for computer programming questions, and uses the [[Stack Overflow#StackExchange|StackExchange]] software engine.

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 knowknown – 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|tenure]], etc. It is generally inhospitable to questions perceived as tendentious or argumentative.

== Origin ==