Creative Solution for IMO Trigonometry Problem

Let $A,\,B$ be acute angles such that $\tan B=2015\sin A \cos A-2015\sin^2 A \tan B$.

Find the greatest possible value of $\tan B$.

This blog post is to highlight the fact that if we're creative enough, we can avoid the tedious calculus method to look for the maximal of $\tan B$.

You have to be aware of a few things as well:

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When $B$ is an acute angle and if $\sin B\le \dfrac{m}{n}$, then  $\tan B\le \dfrac{m}{\sqrt{n^2-m^2}}$ must be true.

In other words, we obtain the maximal of $\tan B$ if we have obtained the maximal of $\sin B$.