Henda Swart

Hendrika Cornelia Scott (Henda) Swart FRSSAf (born 1939, died 24 February 2016 [age 77-78]) 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[1][2]

Swart began teaching at the University of Natal in 1962.[2] She was the first person to earn a doctorate in mathematics from Stellenbosch University,[2] in 1971, with a dissertation on the geometry of projective planes supervised by Kurt-Rüdiger Kannenberg.[3] In 1977, her research interests shifted from geometry to graph theory, which she continued to publish in for the rest of her career.[2]

She was the editor-in-chief of the journal Utilitas Mathematica,[1][2][4] and has been vice president of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications.[1][2] In 1996 she became a fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Fellow citation, Royal Society of South Africa, 1996, retrieved 2015-01-17.
  2. 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.
  3. ↑ Henda Swart at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ↑ Utilitas Mathematica home page, retrieved 2015-01-17.
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