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Ronnie Brown, a long-time MathOverflow user, passed away on the 6th December 2024.

Claiming $e+\pi$ is irrational is a huge piece of news if true. I can only point to the advice in this answer https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/18570/8881 and the others there, in order than you ar …

The official reason the software recorded for the auto-deletion is "Scheduled: RemoveDeadQuestions". You can read about this in the help centre. I believe your question satisfied the requirements: th …

I don't feel like the answers given there are representative of expert opinion. This may be the case in your experience, but there are professional mathematicians, academics, lecturers etc who are o …

Here's a piece of good news for once: Claire Voisin has won the 2024 Crafoord Prize for Mathematics! Here's a video on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE5-WGyS6h8 (Nota Bene: Prof Voisin is the fi …

Someone mentioned the old discussion in regards to the current events, and while there are no plans or hints of plans of moving (as noted below), trying to sort things out at the last minute under pressure … However, as I mentioned to the other mods in a recent discussion, we are at risk of being in the position of the fictional 1980s UK Prime Minister Jim Hacker, with the power of the nuclear deterrent, but …

for some discussion about why people might not yet be willing to get to work clearing up the results of greatly lessened moderation). … I raised discussion with the other moderators to see if there was any strong feeling in either direction as far as MathOverflow goes, but not much has yet eventuated. …

As you probably were aware, since early June moderators around the whole SE network have been striking, including at MathOverflow. We appreciate your patience through this time, and there has been a l …

There are clearly cases when the tag open-problem has been used a perfectly acceptable way, for instance asking questions about open problems as a class of problems, or in meta-discussion about a specific …

This update is to point to two posts by the company on the platform-wide meta site, Meta Stack Exchange. The post (Historical) Policy on the use of GPT Generators is a copy of the private policy on g …

There was a lull in the negotiations, for various innocuous reasons that are not relevant. But on 20th July 2023, the following update was posted to Discord by negotiator Mithical, and reposted at the …

There has been movement at the station. Reposting an update on how the negotiations are going from this answer on meta.StackExchange, which also gives details on other updates over the past fortnight. …

As announced a little while back, MathOverflow moderators are participating in a network-wide moderation strike (currently at 121 moderators striking; see the background post for more details). The sh …

People can recreate their account after deletion. But a suspension transfers to the new account. It is a violation of the terms of service to try to avoid a suspension by creating what amounts to a wh …

It should be noted that users other than moderators can sign the open letter and likewise refrain from curation activities across the network, including MathOverflow, to the extent they feel comfortab …