Part I. Fischer's Theorem: 1. Preliminaries
2. Commuting graphs of groups
3. The structure of 3-transposition groups
4. Classical groups generated by 3-transpositions
5. Fischer's theorem
6. The geometry of 3-transposition groups
Part II. Existence and Uniquenesss Of The Fischer Groups: 7. Some group extensions
8. Almost 3-transposition groups
9. Uniqueness systems and coverings of graphs
10. U4 (3) as a subgroup of U6 (2)
11. The existence and uniqueness of the Fischer groups
Part III. The Local Structure Of The Fischer Groups: 12. The 2-local structure of the Fischer groups
13. Elements of order 3 in orthogonal groups over GF(3)
14. Odd locals in Fischer groups
15. Normalisers of subgroups of prime order in Fischer groups.

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