Christina Magdalena (Kieka) Mynhardt (née Steyn; born 1953) [1] 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. [2] She is a professor of mathematics and statistics at the University of Victoria in Canada.
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]
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]
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Christina Magdalena (Kieka) Mynhardt (née Steyn; born 1953) [1] 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. [2] She is a professor of mathematics and statistics at the University of Victoria in Canada.
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]
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]
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