Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2007/ia/paper-3/7d/ii/solution

Take the Jordan block
Its only eigenvalue is one. An eigenvector satisfies , so its second coordinate vanishes; the eigenspace is one-dimensional. A diagonalizable matrix of size two requires a basis of two independent eigenvectors, which this matrix lacks even over .

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