| Intro | South African mathematician | ||
| Was | Mathematician | ||
| From | South Africa | ||
| Type | Mathematics | ||
| Gender | female | ||
| Birth | 1939 | ||
| Death |
24 February 2016 (aged 77 years) |
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Hendrika Cornelia Scott (Henda) Swart (born 1939, died February 2016 [age 77-78]) 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.