Perhaps the younger generation today is unaware of the identity of founder Ting Fu-pao. Besides possessing a government diploma from the Qing Dynasty imperial exam system, he was also a prominent mathematician, physician, literary scholar and Buddhist scholar during the early Republican era. His published works on algebra, medicine, poetry and Buddhism were all important in their respective fields.
對於今天的後生晚輩，可能已經不熟悉丁福保是何許人物，然而這位晚清秀才，卻是民國初年重要的數學家、醫學家、文學家和佛學家，他所編寫的《代數備旨》、《丁氏醫學叢書》、《歷代詩話》、《佛學指南》等等，都是各個領域裡的重要著作。