Brian Evan Blank is an associate professor of mathematics at Washington University in St. Louis. He received his Ph.D. in 1980 at Cornell University, with Anthony Knapp as advisor.[1] His 20th century work involved harmonic analysis. He has also co-authored a pair of calculus textbooks with his Washington University colleague, Steven Krantz. Titled Calculus: Single Variable and Calculus: Multivariable, the textbooks are currently used in calculus classes at Washington University. Moreover, he had many excellent PhD students, such as, Hesheng Zhao and Dashan Fan. The latter is professor of mathematics at University of Wisconsin.