The vagaries of the market, even during the writing of this chapter, prove the importance of planning for and responding to the boom bust cycle.
Introducing those ideas early on in the chapter proved useful.
For this very reason, though, reading his subjects' "French" texts, appended to each chapter, proves a somewhat unsatisfying exercise, despite Richard Howard's characteristically able translation.
A passage from the book's first chapter proves it.
The chapter proves the important result that a homogeneous system has a unique solution if and only if its coefficient matrix is invertible.
I found that some characters treated in the book held less intrinsic interest for me than others, but these chapters proved the worth of Jay's historical approach by allowing the context to become the story in a satisfying fashion.
That said, a few of the chapters proved to be particularly useful to the study of evolution in a general sense.
This chapter should prove to be full of information that's worth "learnin'".
For readers who are only interested in gaining a basic understanding of MARTE and its purpose, but who do not anticipate using it directly in their work, the material in this chapter may prove sufficient.
Coming from a research psychology background with a concentration in evolutionary studies and human sexuality (as the authors of this paper do), the beginning and ending chapters proved to be most beneficial from a general evolutionary educational point of view.
