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I think a more intriguing idea is to understand why more popular textbooks like the canonical Stewart textbook present materials paying no attention to historical development. In doing so, students are exposed to mathematics as a completely abstract discipline that exists outside of human beings. While some work has been done to correct this overtly White European reconstruction of history, much more needs to be done.

Historical tidbits is perhaps not the only way to accomplish this, but instead maybe we can communicate the messy development of the discipline that has taken place over thousands of years all over the world. Toeplitzs' genetic approach is a starting point, but so are Hairer and Wanner's more recent text on analysis, Edwards text The Historical Development of the Calculus, and in particular David Perkins Calculus and Its Origins from the MAA is an inspirational textbook that I continue to use with my undergraduate Calculus classes.

With many mathematics educators discussing issues of race, gender, and equity, it is important to understand that people other than white europeans have accomplished enormous feats relevant to the calculus curriculum. Two examples might be ibn Al Haytham and his computation of solids of revolution and Jyesthadeva and his approximation of pi through the use of an alternating series. From a more philosophical standpoint, see Serres The Birth of Physics, though this is pretty white as well.

More than anything, we should continue to see the curriculum as a work in progress rather than a static set truth as presented in its best image through the work of those like Stewart and Larson whose texts cost hundreds of dollars and are inaccessible to many. Reorganize these ideas from what you believe is a more impassioned presentation of mathematics and share with all!