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词条 MathOverflow
释义

  1. Origin and history

      Naming  

  2. Use of mathematical formulas

  3. Usage

  4. Reception

  5. See also

  6. Notes

  7. External links

MathOverflow is a mathematics question-and-answer (Q&A) website, which serves as an online community of mathematicians. It allows users to ask questions, submit answers, and rate both, all while getting merit points for their activities. It is a part of the Stack Exchange Network.

It is primarily for asking questions on mathematics research – i.e. related to 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 exercises. It does welcome various questions on other topics that might normally be discussed among mathematicians, for example about publishing, refereeing, advising, getting tenure, etc. It is generally inhospitable to questions perceived as tendentious or argumentative.

Origin and history

The website was started by Berkeley graduate students and postdocs Anton Geraschenko, David Zureick-Brown, and Scott Morrison on 28 September 2009.[1] The hosting was supported by Ravi Vakil.[2] The site originally ran on a separate installation of the StackExchange 1.0 software engine; on June 25, 2013, it was integrated in the regular Stack Exchange Network, running SE 2.0.[3]

Naming

According to MathOverflow FAQ, the proper spelling is "MathOverflow" rather than "Math Overflow".

Use of mathematical formulas

The original version of the website did not support LaTeX markup for mathematical formulas. To support most of the functionality of LaTeX, MathJax was added in order for the site to transform math equations into their appropriate forms. In its current state, any post including "Math Mode" (text between $'s) will translate into proper mathematical notation.

Usage

As of April 4, 2012, there have been 16,496 registered users to MathOverflow,[4] most of whom have been in the United States (35%), India (12%), and the United Kingdom (6%). More recently, by December 11, 2018, the number of registered users has grown to 87,850. [5] So far, 98,441 questions have been posted, or about one for every registered member. Questions are answered an average of 3.9 hours after they are posted, and "Acceptable" answers take an average of 5.01 hours.[6]

Reception

  • Terence Tao compared it to "the venerable newsgroup sci.math, but with more modern, 'Web 2.0' features."[7]
  • John C. Baez writes that "website 'Math Overflow' has become a universal clearinghouse for math questions".[8]
  • According to Gil Kalai, MathOverflow "is ran {{sic}} by an energetic and impressive group of very (very very) young people".[9]
  • 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.[10]
  • 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."[11]

See also

  • nLab
  • PhysicsOverflow

Notes

1. ^Jared Keller, [https://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, 28 September 2010
2. ^{{citation |url = http://www.mercurynews.com/san-jose-neighborhoods/ci_15713739 |newspaper = San Jose Mercury News |date = August 8, 2010 |title = Stanford and UC Berkeley create massively collaborative math |first = Lisa M. |last = Krieger }}.
3. ^{{cite web |title = Math Overflow 2.0 |url = http://aperiodical.com/2013/06/mathoverflow-2-0/ |author = Christian Perfect |publisher = The Aperiodical |date = 25 June 2013 }}
4. ^{{official website|http://www.mathoverflow.net}}
5. ^{{cite web |url = http://www.sharenator.com/w/mathoverflow.net |title = Sharenator MO Statistics |deadurl = yes |archiveurl = https://archive.is/20120909064947/http://www.sharenator.com/w/mathoverflow.net |archivedate = 2012-09-09 |df = }}
6. ^{{cite web |url = http://www.mathcs.emory.edu/~dzb/slides/MO_slides.pdf |author = David Zureick-Brown |title = MathOverflow (presentation slides) |date = 29 March 2011 }}
7. ^{{cite web |url = http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/math-overflow/ |title = Math Overflow |author = Terence Tao |date = 20 October 2009 }}
8. ^{{cite web |author = John C. Baez |url = http://www.ams.org/notices/201003/rtx100300333p.pdf |title = Math Blogs |publisher = Notices of the AMS |date = March 2010 }}
9. ^{{cite web |url = http://gilkalai.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/math-overflow/ |title = Math Overflow |author = Gil Kalai |date = 13 November 2009 }}
10. ^{{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 }}
11. ^{{cite web |author = Jared Keller |url = https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/09/beyond-facebook-how-the-worlds-mathematicians-organize-online/63422/ |title = Beyond Facebook: How the World's Mathematicians Organize Online |publisher = The Atlantic |date = 28 September 2010 }}

External links

  • {{official website}}
  • {{cite web |url = https://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/03/podcast-86/ |title = Podcast #86 |date = 23 March 2010 |publisher = Stack Exchange Blog }} — podcast with Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood (creators of Stack Exchange) and Anton Geraschenko (creator of MathOverflow).
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