Ingeborg Seynsche
Ingeborg Seynsche (21 October 1905 – 27 June 1994) was a German mathematician. She was one of the first women to earn a doctorate in mathematics at the University of Göttingen.
Born in Barmen, she studied in Marburg and Göttingen, and in 1929 passed the state exam for teachers in mathematics and physics. She became an assistant at Göttingen’s Mathematical Institute and earned her doctorate in 1930 under Richard Courant. Her dissertation was On the theory of almost periodic sequences of numbers, a topic suggested by Harald Bohr and Alwin Walther.
She later worked with Alwin Walther on function tables and two-sided surface ornaments, and she solved the queen problem for arbitrary n. She married physicist Friedrich Hund in 1931, and they had six children.
Her grandchildren include chess players Barbara Hund and Isabel Hund. Ingeborg Seynsche died in Göttingen in 1994 and is buried at Munich Waldfriedhof.
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