Auteur: O. Timothy O. Meara

This volume, the sequel to the author’s Lectures on Linear Groups, is the definitive work on the isomorphism theory of symplectic groups over integral domains. Recently discovered geometric methods w …

From the reviews: "O’Meara treats his subject from this point of view (of the interaction with algebraic groups). He does not attempt an encyclopedic coverage …nor does he strive to take the r …

It is a great satisfaction for a mathematician to witness the growth and expansion of a theory in which he has taken some part during its early years. When H. Weyl coined the words "classical gr …