| Henda Swart | |
| Birth Name: | Hendrika Cornelia Scott Henda |
| Birth Date: | 1939 |
| Death Date: | February 2016 |
| Awards: | Fellow Royal Society of South Africa |
| Alma Mater: | Stellenbosch University |
| Thesis Title: | Sesquilinear Curves in Desarguesian Planes |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Kurt-Rüdiger Kannenberg |
| Discipline: | Mathematics |
| Sub Discipline: | graph theory |
| Workplaces: | 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]
Born Hendrika Cornelia Scott she married John Henry Swart.[4] They had three children Christine, Sandra and Gustav.
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. 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] [5] 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.
She published under the name Henda C Swart. She published nearly 100 papers from 1980 to 2018.[6]