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    Henda Swart

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    Henda Swart
    Born
    Hendrika Cornelia Scott Henda

    1939
    DiedFebruary 2016
    AwardsFellow Royal Society of South Africa
    Academic background
    Alma materStellenbosch University
    ThesisSesquilinear Curves in Desarguesian Planes
    Doctoral advisorKurt-Rüdiger Kannenberg
    Academic work
    DisciplineMathematics
    Sub-disciplinegraph theory
    InstitutionsUniversity 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

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    Born Hendrika Cornelia Scott, she married John Henry Swart.[4] They had three children Christine, Sandra and Gustav.[4]

    Career

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    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

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    She published under the name Henda C Swart.[4] She published nearly 100 papers from 1980 to 2018.[7]

    References

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    1. ^ "Fellows (FRSSAf)". Royal Society of South Africa. December 2016. Archived from the original on 2018-09-05. Retrieved 2017-11-29.
    2. ^ a b c d Fellow citation Archived 2020-02-07 at the Wayback Machine, Royal Society of South Africa, 1996, retrieved 2015-01-17.
    3. ^ 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.
    4. ^ a b c d "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.
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    • O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Henda Swart", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
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