Henda Swart
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1939
Henda Swart | |
|---|---|
| Born | Hendrika Cornelia Scott 1939 |
| Died | February 2016 (aged 76–77) |
| 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.[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]
