Henry C. Wente

Henry Christian Wente (August 18, 1936 – January 20, 2020){{citation|url=https://www.toledoblade.com/news/deaths/2020/01/25/toledo-blade-obituaries-henry-wente-mathematics-professor/stories/20200124145|title=Henry C. Wente (1936-2020): UT professor known in mathematics for soap bubble curvature research|newspaper=Toledo Blade|first=Mark|last=Zaborney|date=January 24, 2020}} 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.{{Citation | last1=Wente | first1=Henry C. | title=Counterexample to a conjecture of H. Hopf. | url=http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.pjm/1102702809 | year=1986 | journal=Pacific Journal of Mathematics | volume=121 | pages=193–243 | doi=10.2140/pjm.1986.121.193| doi-access=free }}[http://www.math.utoledo.edu/wente_torus.html The Wente torus], University of Toledo Mathematics Department, retrieved 2013-09-01.

Wente obtained both his bachelor's degree and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. He completed his doctorate in 1966, under the supervision of Garrett Birkhoff.{{mathgenealogy|id=19400}} He was a distinguished professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Toledo, which he joined in 1971. In 1986 he was an Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Berkeley, California.{{cite web|title=Wente, H. C.|website=ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers|url=https://www.mathunion.org/icm-plenary-and-invited-speakers?combine=Wente}} In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[http://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society], retrieved 2013-09-01.

Selected publications

=Articles=

{{cite journal|last1=Wente|first1=Henry C.|author-mask=2|title=An existence theorem for surfaces of constant mean curvature|journal=Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society|volume=77|issue=2|year=1971|pages=200–203|mr=268743|doi=10.1090/S0002-9904-1971-12679-4|doi-access=free}}
{{cite journal|doi=10.1007/BF01117500|title=A general existence theorem for surfaces of constant mean curvature|year=1971|last1=Wente|first1=Henry C.|author-mask=2|journal=Mathematische Zeitschrift|volume=120|issue=3|pages=277–288}}
{{cite journal|doi=10.1007/BF01214305|title=Variational problems with obstacles and a volume constraint|year=1973|last1=Hildebrandt|first1=S.|last2=Wente|first2=H. C.|author-mask2=2|journal=Mathematische Zeitschrift|volume=135|pages=55–68}}
{{cite journal|doi=10.1007/BF01184954|title=The Dirichlet problem with a volume constraint|year=1974|last1=Wente|first1=Henry C.|author-mask=2|journal=Manuscripta Mathematica|volume=11|issue=2|pages=141–157}}
{{cite journal|author=Wente, Henry C.|author-mask=2|title=The differential equation $\Delta$ x=2H(x_u $\wedge$ x_v) with vanishing boundary values|journal=Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society|volume=50|issue=1|year=1975|pages=131–137|doi=10.2307/2040528|MR=0374673}}
{{cite journal|doi=10.1007/BF01174896|title=The non-existence of branch points in solutions to certain classes of plateau type variational problems|year=1978|last1=Steffen|first1=Klaus|last2=Wente|first2=Henry C.|author-mask2=2|journal=Mathematische Zeitschrift|volume=163|issue=3|pages=211–238}}
{{cite journal|doi=10.1007/BF00284621|title=Large solutions to the volume constrained plateau problem|year=1980|last1=Wente|first1=Henry C.|author-mask=2|journal=Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis|volume=75|issue=1|pages=59–77|bibcode=1980ArRMA..75...59W}}
{{cite journal|doi=10.1007/BF01165793|title=The symmetry of rotating fluid bodies|year=1982|last1=Wente|first1=Henry C.|author-mask=2|journal=Manuscripta Mathematica|volume=39|issue=2–3|pages=287–296}}
{{cite book|doi=10.1007/BFb0084601|chapter=A counterexample in 3-space to a conjecture of H. Hopf|title=Arbeitstagung Bonn 1984|series=Lecture Notes in Mathematics|year=1985|last1=Wente|first1=Henry C.|author-mask=2|volume=1111|pages=421–429|isbn=978-3-540-15195-1}}
{{cite book|doi=10.1007/978-1-4612-4656-5_2|chapter=Immersed Tori of Constant Mean Curvature in $\mathbb{R}^3$ |title=Variational Methods for Free Surface Interfaces|year=1987|last1=Wente|first1=Henry C.|author-mask=2|pages=13–26|isbn=978-1-4612-9101-5}}
{{cite book|doi=10.1007/978-3-322-85049-2_1|chapter=Twisted Tori of Constant Mean Curvature in $\mathbb{R}^3$ |title=Seminar on New Results in Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations|year=1987|last1=Wente|first1=Henry C.|author-mask=2|pages=1–36|isbn=978-3-322-85051-5}}
{{cite journal|jstor=24897145|title=Existence and Classification of Constant Mean Curvature Multibubbletons of Finite and Infinite Type|last1=Sterling|first1=I.|last2=Wente|first2=H. C.|author-mask2=2|journal=Indiana University Mathematics Journal|year=1993|volume=42|issue=4|pages=1239–1266|doi=10.1512/iumj.1993.42.42057|doi-access=free}}
{{cite journal|doi=10.1007/BF01205004|title=The capillary problem for an infinite trough|year=1995|last1=Wente|first1=Henry C.|author-mask=2|journal=Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations|volume=3|issue=2|pages=155–192}}
{{cite journal|doi=10.2140/pjm.1999.189.339|title=A surprising bubble catastrophe|year=1999|last1=Wente|first1=Henry C.|author-mask=2|journal=Pacific Journal of Mathematics|volume=189|issue=2|pages=339–375|doi-access=free}}
{{cite journal|doi=10.1007/s005260100097|year=2002|last1=Wente|first1=Henry C.|author-mask=2|title= Constant mean curvature surfaces of annular type|journal=Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations|volume=14|issue=2|pages=193–211}}
{{cite journal|doi=10.1007/s00021-007-0251-0|title=The Floating Ball Paradox|year=2008|last1=Wente|first1=Henry C.|author-mask=2|journal=Journal of Mathematical Fluid Mechanics|volume=10|issue=4|pages=569–582|bibcode=2008JMFM...10..569W}}
{{cite journal|doi=10.1007/s00021-010-0027-9|title=Exotic Capillary Tubes|year=2011|last1=Wente|first1=Henry C.|author-mask=2|journal=Journal of Mathematical Fluid Mechanics|volume=13|issue=3|pages=355–370|bibcode=2011JMFM...13..355W}}

=Books=

{{cite book|author=Wente, Henry C.|author-mask=2|title=Constant Mean Curvature Immersions of Enneper Type|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jnnUCQAAQBAJ|year=1992|publisher=American Mathematical Soc.|isbn=978-0-8218-2536-5}}

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