Nate Ackerman

{{Short description|American-British Olympic wrestler and mathematician}}

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| name = Nate Ackerman

| image = Nate Ackerman 24.jpg

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| caption = Ackerman in 2024

| full_name = Nathanael Leedom Ackerman

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1978|03|04}}

| birth_place = New York, New York, U.S.

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| occupation = Lecturer in mathematics at Harvard University

| nationality = {{GBR2}}
{{USA}}

| parents = Joanne Leedom-Ackerman and Peter Ackerman

| sport = Wrestling

| event = Freestyle

| club = Dave Schultz Wrestling Club

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Nathanael Leedom Ackerman (born March 4, 1978),{{Cite web |title=Ackerman, Nathanael Leedon (GBR) |url=https://whatsmat.uww.org/daten.php?spid=B71507360C794F80AB78E0C16401D490 |access-date=2023-12-15 |website=whatsmat.uww.org}} known as Nate Ackerman, is a British-American mathematician and wrestler. He is the son of Peter Ackerman and Joanne Leedom-Ackerman.

Ackerman competed in the 2004 Summer Olympic Games as part of the Great Britain National Team.{{cite web |last=Phillips |first=Michael |title=Britain's only wrestler grapples with a crowd |url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2004/may/25/athensolympics2004.olympicgames |date=25 May 2004 |work=Athens 2004 |publisher=The Guardian |accessdate=14 July 2009}} He also competed in the 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005 and 2011 World Championships.[https://www.iat.uni-leipzig.de/datenbanken/dbfoeldeak/daten.php?spid=B71507360C794F80AB78E0C16401D490 Ackerman, Nathanael Leedon (GBR)]. FILA Wrestling Database. Retrieved on 20 July 2009. Ackerman's best international finish was fifth at the 2011 Commonwealth Championship.

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{{citation|title=MIT brains, brawn and bright lights go to Athens Olympics|journal=MIT News|publisher=Massachusetts Institute of Technology|url=http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2004/olympics|first=Denise|last=Brehm|date=August 13, 2004}} and then Harvard University, where he graduated in June 2000.

He received his Ph.D. in mathematics in 2006 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.{{mathGenealogy|98770}}{{cite thesis | type=Ph.D. thesis | url=http://www.math.harvard.edu/~nate/papers/misc/thesis/thesis.pdf | author=Nathanael Leedom Ackerman | title=On Quantifier Rank Spectrum of L-Infinity-Omega | institution=Massachusetts Institute of Technology | year=2006 }}