Wente Torus

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The Wente Torus As demonstrated by Stewart Dickson Research, funded by Computer Science and Mathematics Division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, managed by UT-Battelle, LLC for the U.S. DOE under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725, Is a compact immersion of the torus that boasts constant mean curvature. Prior to 1984, the only known surface with this characteristic was the sphere. Henry Wente, who discovered this surface, is on the faculty at the Department of Mathematics, University of Toledo. Other images and discussions about the Wente Torus and other Constant Mean Curvature surfaces can be found at these URLs: The Wente Torus Page at The Mathematical Sciences Research Institute: http://www.msri.org/publications/sgp/jim/images/stills/wente/mainc.html The Wente Torus Page at the Geometry, Analysis, Numerics and Graphics (GANG) Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst: http://www.gang.umass.edu/gallery/cmc/cmcgallery0301.html http://emsh.calarts.edu/~mathart/sw/objView/thicken.html Here are some images I have created from data supplied by Ivan Sterling.