Henda Swart

Hendrika Cornelia Scott (Henda) Swart FRSSAf (born 1939, died February 2016 [age 77-78])[1] was a South African mathematician, a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and a professor at the University of Cape Town[2][3]

Henda Swart
Born
Hendrika Cornelia Scott Henda

1939
DiedFebruary 2016
AwardsFellow Royal Society of South Africa
Academic background
Alma materStellenbosch University
ThesisSesquilinear Curves in Desarguesian Planes
Doctoral advisorKurt-Rüdiger Kannenberg
Academic work
DisciplineMathematics
Sub-disciplinegraph theory
InstitutionsUniversity of KwaZulu-Natal,
University of Cape Town

Personal Life

Born Hendrika Cornelia Scott she married John Henry Swart.[4] They had three children Christine, Sandra and Gustav.[4]

Career

Swart began teaching at the University of Natal in 1962.[3] She was the first person to earn a doctorate in mathematics from Stellenbosch University,[3] in 1971, with a dissertation on the geometry of projective planes supervised by Kurt-Rüdiger Kannenberg.[5] In 1977, her research interests shifted from geometry to graph theory, which she continued to publish in for the rest of her career.[3]

She was the editor-in-chief of the journal Utilitas Mathematica,[2][3][6] and was vice president of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications.[2][3] In 1996 she became a fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa.[2]

Swart was a part-time lecturer at the University of Cape town from 2014 until her death.[4]

Publications

She published under the name Henda C Swart.[4] She published nearly 100 papers from 1980 to 2018.[7]

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References
  1. "Fellows (FRSSAf)". Royal Society of South Africa. December 2016. Retrieved 2017-11-29.
  2. Fellow citation, Royal Society of South Africa, 1996, retrieved 2015-01-17.
  3. Group Democracy and Governance, Human Sciences Research Council (2000), "Swart, Henda", Women Marching Into the 21st Century: Wathint' Abafazi, Wathint' Imbokodo, HSRC Press, pp. 192–193, ISBN 9780796919663.
  4. "Hendrika Swart (1939-2016)". www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-10-08.
  5. Henda Swart at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. Utilitas Mathematica home page Archived 2015-01-27 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 2015-01-17.
  7. "Swart publications". www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-10-08.
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