Ian agol mathematics background

American mathematician

Ian Agol^{[needs IPA]} (born May 13, 1970) is an American mathematician who deals primarily with the topology of three-dimensional manifolds.^[2]

Education and career

Agol graduated with B.S.

in mathematics from the California Institute of Technology in 1992 and obtained his Ph.D.

Ian agol mathematics background information

in 1998 from the University of California, San Diego. At UCSD, his advisor was Michael Freedman and his thesis was Topology of Hyperbolic 3-Manifolds.^[3] He is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley^[4] and a former professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.^[5]

Contributions

In 2004, Agol proved the Marden tameness conjecture, a conjecture of Albert Marden.^[6] It states that a hyperbolic 3-manifold with finitely generated fundamental group is homeomorphic to the interior of a compact 3-manifold.

The conjecture was also independently proven by Danny Calegari and David