Biography:Nate Ackerman

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Nate Ackerman
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Personal information
Full nameNathanael Leedom Ackerman[1]
NationalityBritish/American
Born (1978-03-04) March 4, 1978 (age 48)[1]
New York, New York, U.S.
Sport
SportWrestling
Event(s)Freestyle
ClubDave Schultz Wrestling Club

Nathanael Leedom Ackerman (born March 4, 1978),[1] known as Nate Ackerman, is a British-American mathematician and wrestler. He is the son of Peter Ackerman and Joanne Leedom-Ackerman.

Biography

Ackerman was born in New York City, New York, United States to Joanne Leedom-Ackerman and Peter Ackerman. He was educated at the American School in London[2] and then Harvard University, where he graduated in June 2000.

Ackerman competed in the 2004 Summer Olympic Games as part of the Great Britain National Team.[3] He also competed in the 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005 and 2011 World Championships.[4] Ackerman's best international finish was fifth at the 2011 Commonwealth Championship.[1]

Ackerman was a two-times winner of the British Wrestling Championships at welterweight in 2002 and 2004.[5]

He received his Ph.D. in mathematics in 2006 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[6][7]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Ackerman, Nathanael Leedon (GBR)". https://whatsmat.uww.org/daten.php?spid=B71507360C794F80AB78E0C16401D490. 
  2. Brehm, Denise (August 13, 2004), "MIT brains, brawn and bright lights go to Athens Olympics", MIT News (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2004/olympics 
  3. Phillips, Michael (25 May 2004). "Britain's only wrestler grapples with a crowd". Athens 2004. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2004/may/25/athensolympics2004.olympicgames. Retrieved 14 July 2009. 
  4. Ackerman, Nathanael Leedon (GBR). FILA Wrestling Database. Retrieved on 20 July 2009.
  5. "British Senior Champions 2002 to 2008". https://britishwrestling.org/about-british-wrestling/history-of-wrestling/british-senior-champions-2002-to-2008/. 
  6. Nate Ackerman at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  7. Nathanael Leedom Ackerman (2006). On Quantifier Rank Spectrum of L-Infinity-Omega (PDF) (Ph.D. thesis). Massachusetts Institute of Technology.