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Thank you, this is really helpful. The last advice proved to be very helpful and this really made things clear for me. I really appreciate everyone's input.

Thanks for your response. It was helpful. :)

I graduated with a Bachelor's in Physics a few years back and have been working in the education field (Private Institute) for a few years now. Although I am making serious efforts to at least go for my Master's now, I am also looking for positions related to my degree outside the education...

well I managed to clean up the expression inside the sqrt a bit to: [(a-b)2 + c 2 ]/2 a2 -2ab + b2 + c2 = (a-b)2 + c2 λ1 = (a+b) + sqrt{(a-b)2 +c 2}/2 and λ2 = (a+b) - sqrt{(a-b)2 + c2}/2 now these expressions for Lambda are too difficult for me to use to solve for eigenvectors

is there any way this expression can be simplified further? I am sort of having trouble with the algebra :S

M = (a c) (c b) Sorry for the double sets of brackets, its all in one. I'll also show as far as i got below: [a-λ c] => (a-λ)(b-λ) - c^2 = λ^2 + (-a-b)λ + (ab-c^2) =0 [c b-λ] => then using the quadratic formula: λ = [-(-a-b) +/- Sqrt{(-a-b)^2 - 4(1)(ab-c^2)}]/ 2 then...