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This is a short survey of the progress on the congruence subgroup problem since the sixties when the first major results on the integral unimodular groups appeared. It is aimed at the non-specialists and avoids technical details.
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This is essentially a transcript of the plenary talk given at the Joint India-AMS Mathematics Meeting held in December 2003 in Bangalore, India.
An erratum to this article is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02829665.
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Raghunathan, M.S. The congruence subgroup problem. Proc Math Sci 114, 299–308 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02829437
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