Ingeborg Seynsche

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Ingeborg Seynsche, 1930
Ingeborg Seynsche with husband Friedrich Hund and their children, 1950
Grave in Munich

Martha Mechthild Ingeborg Seynsche (born October 21, 1905 in Barmen ; † June 27, 1994 in Göttingen ) was a German mathematician . She was one of the first women with a mathematical topic in Göttingen PhD allowed.

Life

Her father Johannes Seynsche (1857–1925) was a professor and senior teacher at the Unterbarmer Higher Girls' School . She passed her A-levels at Easter 1924 in Unterbarmen . She then studied in Marburg and Göttingen, and in 1929 passed the academic state examination for teachers in pure and applied mathematics and physics . She was an assistant at the Mathematical Institute in Göttingen.

Ingeborg Seynsche received his doctorate in philosophy from the Georg-August University in Göttingen in 1930 . The topic of her dissertation with Richard Courant was: On the theory of almost periodic number sequences . It was a topic from the theory of almost periodic functions at the suggestion of Harald Bohr and Alwin Walther . Later she dealt among other things with the calculation of functional tables (with Alwin Walther) and the double-sided surface ornaments. She also solved the queen's problem for any n.

family

She married the physicist Friedrich Hund (1896–1997) in Barmen on March 17, 1931 . The family had six children: Gerhard (* 1932), Dietrich (1933–1939), Irmgard (* 1934), Martin (* 1937), Andreas (* 1940) and Erwin (* 1941). The chess grandmaster Barbara Hund is her granddaughter.

Ingeborg Seynsche's final resting place is in Munich , where her husband and sister Gertrud and their son-in-law Dieter Pfirsch are also buried.

literature

  • Hentschel, Klaus ; Tobies, R .: Friedrich Hund on the 100th birthday (interview) . NTM-International Journal for the History and Ethics of Natural Sciences, Technology and Medicine, NS 4 (1996), pp. 1–18
  • Tobies, Renate: Biographical lexicon in mathematics for post- doctoral persons (algorism, studies on the history of mathematics and natural sciences, edited by Menso Folkerts, volume 58). Dr. Erwin Rauner Published by Augsburg 2006
Page 1 of the 15-page manuscript of the work "The 80 Symmetry Groups of the Two-Sided Plane", which Ingeborg Seynsche created in 1962 in Göttingen.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Document for the doctorate of Ingeborg Seynsche, issued by the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the award of the title of Doctor of Philosophy (February 28, 1930 in Göttingen).
  2. ↑ Seynsche, I. On the theory of almost periodic number sequences . Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo 55, 1931, pp. 395-421
  3. ↑ Short biography of Ingeborg Seynsche on the DMV website ( Memento from July 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ I. Seynsche, A. Walther: Diagrams for approximation by spherical functions, Acta Mathematica 57, 1931, pp. 77-94
  5. ↑ Johann Jakob Burckhardt ( Symmetrie der Kristalle , 1988, p. 150) cites a manuscript from 1963 sent to him by Ingeborg Hund with a particularly attractive depiction of these ornament groups according to Burckhardt .
  6. ↑ The manuscript of her 23-page work Schach-Königinnen schlagsfrei sein is in her estate.

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personal data
SURNAME Seynsche, Ingeborg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dog, Ingeborg; Seynsche, Martha Mechthild Ingeborg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Barmen
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 1994
Place of death Goettingen