Symplectic forms are isomorphic

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Let $V$ be a symplectic vector space, i.e. a vector space with a non-degenerate alternating bilinear form, a so-called symplectic form. There is a theorem:

All symplectic forms on $V$ are ismorphic.

I have two questions about this:

1) Can somebody explain what it means precisely that two symplectic forms are isomorphic?

2) Could somebode give references on this statement with or without proof?

Thank you very much.

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It can be proven that any finite-dimensional symplectic vector space of dimension $2n$ has a basis in which the symplectic form $\omega$ has the form:

$$\begin{pmatrix} 0 & I_n \\ -I_n & 0 \end{pmatrix}$$

This proves that two symplectic forms are isomorphic. A reference is Wikipedia.