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Hendrika Cornelia Scott (Henda) Swart FRSSAf (born 1939, died February 2016 ) 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

Personal life

Born Hendrika Cornelia Scott, she married John Henry Swart. They had three children Christine, Sandra and Gustav.

Career

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

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

Swart was a part-time lecturer at the University of Cape town from 2014 until her death.

Publications

She published under the name Henda C Swart. She published nearly 100 papers from 1980 to 2018.

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

• 1939 births
• 2016 deaths
• 20th-century South African mathematicians
• South African mathematicians
• Graph theorists
• Stellenbosch University alumni
• University of KwaZulu-Natal
• 21st-century South African mathematicians
• 20th-century women mathematicians
• 21st-century women mathematicians
• Academic journal editors