Professor Tan is a famous popular science writer in China, who has been engaged in mathematics popular science for more than half a century. He, Academician Zhang Jingzhong and Professor Li Yupei are known as the "Troika of China Mathematical Science Popularization".
Professor Tan has a solid foundation in ancient Chinese, profound knowledge of literature and history, and is familiar with English, Japanese, German, French, Latin and other languages. Therefore, his "Interesting Mathematics" has a wide range of topics, is full of interest, and is skillfully combined with intellectual training, which is deeply loved by children readers. Professor Tan also translated many excellent foreign works on popular mathematics, including the works of martin gardner, a world-famous master of popular mathematics.