Benedict Freedman was an American novelist and mathematician, the co-author of Mistress Mike and a professor of mathematics at Occidental College in Los Los Angeles
Background
Freedman was born in New York his father, David, emigrated to America from Romania. He studied at Columbia University from ages 13 to 16, but dropped out without graduating after the death of his father. He took up his father"s profession as a radio writer, and moved to the west coast where he worked for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios.
Education
Columbia University; University of California, Los Los Angeles
Career
lieutenant became a bestseller and inspired a 1950 film adaptation. The two Freedmans wrote nine more novels together, and Freedman also continued to write for the entertainment industry, including credits in 1960 for the television show My Favorite Martian. In his 40s, Freedman began studying mathematics.
He earned a bachelor"s degree and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1968 and 1970 respectively.
His thesis, on the topic of intuitionistic logic, was supervised by Yiannis North. Moschovakis. On earning his doctorate, he joined the Occidental faculty, where he also came to head the general studies program
He retired in 1995. Freedman"s son, Michael Freedman, is also a noted mathematician, and they have collaborated.
Freedman"s two daughters also work in academia as a musician at the University of California, Berkeley and as the director of the medical humanities program at the University of California, Irvine. He died in 2012 in Corte Madera, California.