Henda Swart | |
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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]
Born Hendrika Cornelia Scott,she married John Henry Swart. [4] They had three children Christine,Sandra and Gustav. [4]
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]
She published under the name Henda C Swart. [4] She published nearly 100 papers from 1980 to 2018. [7]
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