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Hendrika Swart

died 8 years ago

23 February 2016

Henda Swart was the first person to be awarded a doctorate in mathematics from Stellenbosch University. She worked on the geometry of projective planes and graph theory. She became professor of mathematics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and served as editor-in-chief of the journal Utilitas Mathematica.

Find out more at: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Swart/