About Tao Zhan’s work
From February to August 1996, Tao Zhan held a Croucher Visitorship at the University of Hong Kong. At the time, Zhan was based at Shandong University.
Biography
Zhan Tao entered Shandong University in 1979 and obtained a Bachelor's, a Master's degree, and a Doctorate. In 1995, at the age of 32, Zhan became the Vice President of Shandong University. In 2000, the former Shandong University, Shandong Medical University, and Shandong University of Technology merged to form the new Shandong University, the then 37-year-old Zhan became the President. It was reported at the time that he was "the youngest President of a key university in China". In 2008, Zhan was transferred from the position of President of Shandong University to the President of Jilin University. In 2011, he was transferred to the Ministry of Education as the Director of the Education Management Information Center. In 2017, he became Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education. Zhan Tao has creatively synthesized the traditional techniques of Chinese number theorists and modern mathematical methods in the study of the famous classical problems in number theory, such as "trigonometry and estimation of prime variables", "mean theorem in arithmetic progression" and "Goldbach type".