David C. Geary is a Curators’ Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences and Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Program at the University of Missouri. His work spans topics ranging from children’s mathematical cognition to the evolution of sex differences. He has written five sole authored books: Children’s Mathematical Development, Male, Female, Origin of Mind, Evolution of Vulnerability, and The Evolved Mind and Modern Education. He served on the President’s National Mathematics Advisory Panel (US) and was appointed by President G. W. Bush to the National Board of Advisors for the Institute of Educational Sciences, US Department of Education. Among other honors, he is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a recipient of the G. Stanley Hall Award for Lifetime Distinguished Contributions to Developmental Psychology.
He has co-edited a five-volume book series, Mathematical Cognition and Learning. These volumes include Evolutionary origins and early development of basic number processing; Development of mathematical cognition: Neural substrates and genetic influences; Acquiring complex arithmetic skills and higher-order mathematical concepts; Language and culture in mathematical cognition, and Cognitive foundations for improving mathematical learning.
David C. Geary