title: Henda Swart
text: # Henda Swart
  
  Hendrika Cornelia Scott (Henda) Swart FRSSAf (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.
  
  