Henda Swart

Hendrika Cornelia Scott (Henda) Swart (born 1939, died 24 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

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 has been vice president of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications. In 1996 she became a fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa.