Davit Kapanadze is a Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences and a researcher in mathematics education from Georgia.
His scientific work focuses on the conceptual foundations and teaching of differential calculus.
He is the author of numerous scientific and pedagogical publications, including school textbooks and research papers devoted to the methodology of teaching mathematics.
In this monograph he develops an algebraic–geometric approach to the construction of the derivative, in which the concept is introduced through the criterion of tangency rather than through the limit as the initial definition.