Solution

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Expansion down the last column gives the characteristic polynomial
The quadratic polynomial has roots , which are not rational numbers. For example, the rational root theorem restricts any rational root of this monic integer polynomial to or , and neither works. If had a diagonalization over , its characteristic polynomial would be a product of linear factors with rational numbers as their roots. It is not, so is not diagonalizable over .

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