Kieka Mynhardt

Christina Magdalena (Kieka) Mynhardt (née Steyn, born 1953)[1] is a South African mathematician known for her work on dominating sets in graph theory, including domination versions of the eight queens puzzle.[2] She is a professor of mathematics and statistics at the University of Victoria in Canada.

Education and career

Mynhardt was born in Cape Town,[1][3] and was a student at the Hoërskool Lichtenburg.[1] She completed her Ph.D. at Rand Afrikaans University (now incorporated into the University of Johannesburg) in 1979, supervised by Izak Broere.[4] Her dissertation, The -constructability of graphs, gave a conjectured construction for the planar graphs by repeatedly adding vertices with prescribed neighborhoods.[5] She became a faculty member at the University of Pretoria and then the University of South Africa before moving to the University of Victoria.[3]

Recognition

In 1995, Mynhardt was selected as one of the founding members of the Academy of Science of South Africa.[6] She was a 2005 recipient of the Dignitas Award of the University of Johannesburg Alumni.[7]

References
  1. Birth date and name from "African women with a doctorate in mathematics 1", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, retrieved 2019-12-15
  2. Weakley, William D. (2018), "Queens around the world in twenty-five years", in Gera, Ralucca; Haynes, Teresa W.; Hedetniemi, Stephen T. (eds.), Graph Theory: Favorite Conjectures and Open Problems – 2, Problem Books in Mathematics, Cham: Springer, pp. 43–54, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-97686-0_5, MR 3889146. See in particular p. 48.
  3. "Kieka Mynhardt", Women Who Lead, Chair for Women in Science and Engineering, archived from the original on 2019-09-23, retrieved 2019-09-21CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  4. Kieka Mynhardt at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. The -constructability of graphs: WorldCat catalog entry, retrieved 2019-12-15; review of journal version, P. R. Goodey (1981), MR0584671
  6. ASSAf Celebrates 20 Years of Excellence 1996 – 2016, Academy of Science of South Africa, 2017, p. 47, doi:10.17159/assaf.2016/0010, hdl:20.500.11911/75
  7. UJ Alumni Dignitas Awards, retrieved 2019-09-21
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