About Henry C. Wente
Lived 1936 – 2020 (aged 83). Henry C. Wente was an American mathematician and university teacher.
Henry Christian Wente (August 18, 1936 – January 20, 2020) was an American mathematician, known for his 1997 discovery of the Wente torus, an immersed constant-mean-curvature surface whose existence disproved a conjecture of Heinz Hopf.
Wente obtained both his bachelor's degree and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. He was a distinguished professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Toledo, which he joined in 1971. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
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American mathematician
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Henry C. Wente was born on 18 August 1936 in New York City.
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Henry C. Wente died on 20 January 2020 in Toledo.
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Henry C. Wente was a mathematician and university teacher.
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Henry C. Wente was American.
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