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You would also need Cantor and Riemann, as well as Pythagoras, Bernoulli, Al-Kashi and Al-Khawarizmi, Yang Hui maybe also Lebesgue, Cayley, etc...

There are a lot of small but inaccessible results that are necessary and left out if you only consider sheer amount.

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And while the list already includes Newton and Leibniz, nobody is proving calculus without Cauchy. There's no calculus without limits -- well, not unless you consider infinitesimal calculus, but that wasn't formalized until the mid-20th century.

> nobody is proving calculus without Cauchy

Unless you are Heine?

Cauchy was also a pioneer in complex analysis, which is taught in undergrad.

Riemann and Cantor are both in Gauss’s family.

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