Official website https://www.gerard-vergnaud.org Gérard Vergnaud (8 February 1933 – 6 June 2021) was a French mathematician, philosopher, educator, and psychologist. He earned his doctorate from the International Center for Genetic

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, where he was a researcher in mathematics. Among his most significant work has been the development of the Theory of Conceptual Fields, which describes how children develop an understanding of mathematics.Grossi, Gabriel Pila
"Gérard Vergnaud: Todos perdem quando a pesquisa não é colocada em prática"
Published by Magazine Escola, 23 October 2010, accessed 29 January 2011.

External links

Gérard Vergnaud – Association pour la Recherche en Didactique des Mathématiques
(accessed 29 January 2011).

References

1933 births 2021 deaths French psychologists French mathematicians 20th-century French philosophers French male non-fiction writers Philosophers of mathematics People from Maine-et-Loire {{France-mathematician-stub