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Homework Statement
Show that no matrix A ∈ M3 (ℝ) exists so that A2 = -I3
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The Attempt at a Solution
This is from a french textbook of first year linear algebra. I'm quite familiar with properties of matrices but I don't have any idea of how to prove this.
Thanks for the help!