Benedict Freedman (December 19, 1919 – February 24, 2012) was an American novelist and mathematician, the co-author of Mrs. Mike and a professor of mathematics at Occidental College in Los Angeles.
He took up his father's profession as a radio writer, and moved to the west coast where he worked for MGM Studios.
They married in 1941 despite her poor health; during the war Freedman continued to write, but also worked as an aeronautical engineer for Hughes Aircraft.
The couple wrote their 1947 novel, Mrs. Mike, based on the real-life adventures of their friend Katherine Mary Flannigan who married a Mountie and moved from Boston to the Canadian wilderness.
He earned a bachelor's degree and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1968 and 1970 respectively; his thesis, on the topic of intuitionistic logic, was supervised by Yiannis N. Moschovakis.