This help sheet is very useful!

Suppose we want to find the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the matrix

We can find the eigenvalues using

A = matrix([[2,1],[1,2]])
A.eigenvalues()

A list of eigenvalues, with corresponding eigenvectors and multiplicities, is obtained from

A = matrix([[2,1],[1,2]])
A.eigenvectors_right()

The code

A = matrix([[2,1],[1,2]])
A.eigenmatrix_right()

produces two matrices: the first is a diagonal matrix with eigenvalues down the diagonal; the second is the transition matrix where the column vectors are eigenvectors. One way to use this function is

A = matrix([[2,1],[1,2]])
D,P = A.eigenmatrix_right()
show(P)

which designates the diagonal matrix to be and the transition matrix to be .