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]

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]

References

1. "Fellows (FRSSAf)". Royal Society of South Africa. December 2016. Archived from the original on 2018-09-05. Retrieved 2017-11-29.
2. Fellow citation Archived 2020-02-07 at the Wayback Machine, 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.

External links

• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Henda Swart", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews