Liu Yan

Liu Yan was born in Tangshan, Hebei, in 1985. A mind-map instructor and writer, she has long been engaged in teaching and promoting mind maps. She is the author of popular guides such as You Can Learn Mind Mapping at Once, which help readers apply the technique to study and everyday thinking. Her works cover a remarkably wide range of subjects: the collection holds 14 titles, and beyond mind-mapping books they span essays, medicine, travel, finance, programming and social fiction. Representative works include Cape Cod, A Week on the River, Atlas of Cerebrospinal Fluid Cytology and Clinical Diagnostic Thinking, On Yan Geling, Fundamentals of Economics (Micro-lecture Edition), Advanced Python Programming: Writing More Efficient and Elegant Python Code, and creative art hand-drawing books for children. Because public information is limited, a full account of her life and writing career cannot be given, but the existing titles show a combination of knowledge popularization and specialized writing, crossing the humanities and technology and addressing readers of different ages and needs.