Henry C. Wente

Henry Christian Wente (August 18, 1936 – January 20, 2020)[1] was an American mathematician, known for his 1986 discovery of the Wente torus, an immersed constant-mean-curvature surface whose existence disproved a conjecture of Heinz Hopf.[2][3]

Wente obtained both his bachelor's degree and his Ph.D. from Harvard University.[1] He completed his doctorate in 1966, under the supervision of Garrett Birkhoff.[4] He was a distinguished professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Toledo, which he joined in 1971.[1] In 1986 he was an Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Berkeley, California.[5] In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[6]

  1. ^ a b c Zaborney, Mark (January 24, 2020), "Henry C. Wente (1936-2020): UT professor known in mathematics for soap bubble curvature research", Toledo Blade
  2. ^ Wente, Henry C. (1986), "Counterexample to a conjecture of H. Hopf.", Pacific Journal of Mathematics, 121: 193–243, doi:10.2140/pjm.1986.121.193
  3. ^ The Wente torus, University of Toledo Mathematics Department, retrieved 2013-09-01.
  4. ^ Henry C. Wente at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ^ "Wente, H. C." ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers.
  6. ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-09-01.