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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0733.00015.] The paper surveys recent developments around the multiplicative ergodic theorem. The central limit theorem for products of iid matrices and a new result on the asymptotic behaviour of the polar decomposition of a product of asymptotically independent matrices are presented. Then combinations of algebraic and probabilistic techniques for products of random matrices are discussed, culminating in the following theorem: A product of invertible iid matrices on \(\mathbb{R}^ d\) has \(d\) distinct Lyapunov exponents provided the support of the distribution of the matrices is Zariski dense in the general linear group \(\hbox{Gl}(d,\mathbb{R})\).