O08-105 > restart;with(linalg): Warning, new definition for norm Warning, new definition for trace > a:=n->evalm(matrix(n,n,1)-diag(1$n));a(3); a := n -> evalm(matrix(n, n, 1) - diag(1 $ n)) [0 1 1] [ ] [1 0 1] [ ] [1 1 0] > seq([eigenvals(a(n))],n=2..5); [1, -1], [2, -1, -1], [3, -1, -1, -1], [4, -1, -1, -1, -1]