Marc Culler

Marc Culler
Photograph by Roberta Devlin
BornNovember 22, 1953 (1953-11-22) (age 72)
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
Known forcyclic surgery theorem
Culler–Vogtmann Outer space
Scientific career
Fieldsgeometric group theory
low-dimensional topology
Doctoral advisorJohn Robert Stallings

Marc Edward Culler (born November 22, 1953) is an American mathematician who works in geometric group theory and low-dimensional topology. A native Californian, Culler did his undergraduate work at the University of California at Santa Barbara and his graduate work at Berkeley where he graduated in 1978. He is now a professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Culler is the son of Glen Jacob Culler who was an important early innovator in the development of the Internet.

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