Students who have used Smith/Minton's "Calculus" say it is easier to read than any other math book they've used. Smith/Minton wrote the book for the students who will use it, in a language that they understand, and with the expectation that their backgrounds may have gaps. Smith/Minton provide exceptional, reality-based applications that appeal to students' interests and demonstrate the elegance of math in the world around us.Features new to the third edition include: many new exercises and examples (for a total of 7,000 exercises and 1000 examples throughout the book) provide a careful balance of routine, intermediate and challenging exercises; new exploratory exercises in every section that challenge students to make connections to previous introduced material; new commentaries ("Beyond Formulas") that encourage students to think mathematically beyond the procedures they learn; new counterpoints to the historical notes, "Today in Mathematics," stress the contemporary dynamism of mathematical research and applications, connecting past contributions to the present; and, an enhanced discus...