This feels like somebody who believes “math is just numbers” was asked to write the section, and had to work hard to drag equity and related issues into the exa

This feels like somebody who believes “math is just numbers” was asked to write the section, and had to work hard to drag equity and related issues into the example. Speaking for myself, I always paid more attention when my math teachers mentioned Newton, Gauss, ancient Greeks, Flatland, etc. But the fact that most historical examples were European could give students the impression that Europe was the only part of the world that thought math was important. I guess we heard that “Arabs invented the number 0,” but that’s it. I would love for classes to include mentions of ancient Indian ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_mathematics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_mathematics ) or Chinese math development ( https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Ten_classics/ https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Ten_classic... ). I would be really happy if classes mentioned important mathematicians that had suffered because of something not related to math. Such as math professors losing tenure for being Jewish, Chinese academics caught up in “struggle sessions,” Alan Turing, etc.