Henda Swart

Henda Swart
Born Hendrika Cornelia Scott Henda
1939
Died February 2016
Awards Fellow Royal Society of South Africa
Academic background
Alma mater Stellenbosch University
Thesis Sesquilinear Curves in Desarguesian Planes
Doctoral advisor Kurt-Rüdiger Kannenberg
Academic work
Discipline Mathematics
Sub-discipline graph theory
Institutions University of KwaZulu-Natal,
University of Cape Town

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]

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.[4] 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][5] 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]

References

  1. ↑ "Fellows (FRSSAf)". Royal Society of South Africa. December 2016. Retrieved 2017-11-29.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Fellow citation, Royal Society of South Africa, 1996, retrieved 2015-01-17.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 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. ↑ Henda Swart at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ↑ Utilitas Mathematica home page, retrieved 2015-01-17.
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