Jannie wrote:
>The main conceptual apparatus of MCA was developed without any >reference to matrices. It took David and Christine (anybody before >that?) to alert us to the beauty of matrix algebra to represent the >basics of MCA compactly.
True, and it is *still* true that you can describe the essential ideas
of metabolic control analysis with scarcely a mention of matrix algebra.
Look at David's recent book, for example.
Athel
