[1] Tuller was born in Brooklyn, New York City, on December 30, 1910 to a family of Russian immigrants; her father was a jeweler.
Wheeler had encouraged her to continue her graduate work and earn a doctorate, and in 1935 she returned to Bryn Mawr,[1] completing a Ph.D. there in 1937.
Her dissertation, The Measure of Transitive Geodesics on Certain Three Dimensional Manifolds, concerned differential geometry and was supervised by Gustav A.
[1][2] With her doctorate, Tuller rejoined the Hunter College faculty in 1937, taking a position previously held by Miriam Becker.
[1] The Professor Annita Tuller Prize, a student award at Lehman College, is named for her.