Kieka Mynhardt
Template:Short descriptionTemplate:Infobox scientist Template:Use dmy dates Christina Magdalena (Kieka) Mynhardt (née Steyn; born 1953)Template:R is a South African born Canadian mathematician known for her work on dominating sets in graph theory, including domination versions of the eight queens puzzle.Template:R She is a professor of mathematics and statistics at the University of Victoria in Canada.
Education and career
Mynhardt was born in Cape Town,Template:R and was a student at the Hoërskool Lichtenburg.Template:R She completed her Ph.D. at Rand Afrikaans University (now incorporated into the University of Johannesburg) in 1979, supervised by Izak Broere.Template:R Her dissertation, The -constructability of graphs, gave a conjectured construction for the planar graphs by repeatedly adding vertices with prescribed neighborhoods.Template:R She became a faculty member at the University of Pretoria and then the University of South Africa before moving to the University of Victoria.Template:R
Recognition
In 1995, Mynhardt was selected as one of the founding members of the Academy of Science of South Africa.Template:R She was a 2005 recipient of the Dignitas Award of the University of Johannesburg Alumni.Template:R
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- 1953 births
- Living people
- South African mathematicians
- Members of the Academy of Science of South Africa
- Canadian mathematicians
- Canadian women mathematicians
- South African women mathematicians
- Graph theorists
- Rand Afrikaans University alumni
- Academic staff of the University of Pretoria
- Academic staff of the University of South Africa
- Academic staff of the University of Victoria