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Christina Magdalena (Kieka) Mynhardt (née Steyn; born 1953) is a South African born Canadian mathematician known for her work on dominating sets in graph theory, including domination versions of the eight queens puzzle. She is a professor of mathematics and statistics at the University of Victoria in Canada.

Education and career

Mynhardt was born in Cape Town, and was a student at the Hoërskool Lichtenburg. She completed her Ph.D. at Rand Afrikaans University (now incorporated into the University of Johannesburg) in 1979, supervised by Izak Broere. Her dissertation, The ${\displaystyle {\mathcal {G}}}$-constructability of graphs, gave a conjectured construction for the planar graphs by repeatedly adding vertices with prescribed neighborhoods. She became a faculty member at the University of Pretoria and then the University of South Africa before moving to the University of Victoria.

Recognition

In 1995, Mynhardt was selected as one of the founding members of the Academy of Science of South Africa. She was a 2005 recipient of the Dignitas Award of the University of Johannesburg Alumni.

References

1. ^ Birth date and name from "African women with a doctorate in mathematics 1", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, retrieved 2019-12-15
2. Weakley, William D. (2018), "Queens around the world in twenty-five years", in Gera, Ralucca; Haynes, Teresa W.; Hedetniemi, Stephen T. (eds.), Graph Theory: Favorite Conjectures and Open Problems – 2, Problem Books in Mathematics, Cham: Springer, pp. 43–54, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-97686-0_5, MR 3889146. See in particular p. 48.
3. ^ "Kieka Mynhardt", Women Who Lead, Chair for Women in Science and Engineering, archived from the original on 2019-09-23, retrieved 2019-09-21{{citation}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
4. Kieka Mynhardt at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
5. The ${\displaystyle {\mathcal {G}}}$-constructability of graphs: WorldCat catalog entry, retrieved 2019-12-15; review of journal version, P. R. Goodey (1981), MR0584671
6. ASSAf Celebrates 20 Years of Excellence 1996 – 2016, Academy of Science of South Africa, 2017, p. 47, doi:10.17159/assaf.2016/0010, hdl:20.500.11911/75
7. UJ Alumni Dignitas Awards, retrieved 2019-09-21

External links

• Home page
• Faces of UVic Research: Kieka Mynhardt (video)
• Kieka Mynhardt publications indexed by Google Scholar

• 1953 births
• Living people
• South African mathematicians
• Members of the Academy of Science of South Africa
• Canadian mathematicians
• Women mathematicians
• Graph theorists
• University of Johannesburg alumni
• Academic staff of the University of Pretoria
• Academic staff of the University of South Africa
• Academic staff of the University of Victoria