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*[[Terence Tao]] characterized it as "venerable newsgroup ''sci.math'', but with more modern, '[[Web 2.0]]' features."<ref>[http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/math-overflow/ Math Overflow], Terence Tao blog, 20 October, 2009.</ref>

*[[John C. Baez]] writes that "website 'Math Overflow' has become a universal clearinghouse for math questions".<ref>[[John C. Baez]], [http://www.ams.org/notices/201003/rtx100300333p.pdf Math Blogs], ''[[Notices of the AMS]]'', March 2010.</ref>

*According to [[Gil Kalai]], Math OverflowMathOverflow "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." 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>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], ''[[The Atlantic]]'', September 28, 2010.</ref>