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
- ^ "Fellows (FRSSAf)". Royal Society of South Africa. December 2016. Retrieved 2017-11-29.
- ^ a b c d Fellow citation, Royal Society of South Africa, 1996, retrieved 2015-01-17.
- ^ a b c d e f 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.
- ^ a b c d "Hendrika Swart (1939-2016)". www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-10-08.
- ^ Henda Swart at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Utilitas Mathematica home page Archived 2015-01-27 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 2015-01-17.
- ^ "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
