MathOverflow is a mathematics question-and-answer (Q&A) website, which serves as an online community of mathematicians.
[citation needed] The website was started by Berkeley graduate students and postdocs Anton Geraschenko, David Zureick-Brown, and Scott Morrison on 28 September 2009 based on the idea of Sándor Kovács's NSF CAREER Grant.
[3] 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.
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.