“…One particular case whose determinant evaluation was conjectured (without proof) by Sylvester [19, page 305] is where the matrix entries are given by For this elegant result, there exist a number of generalisations and applications (see, for example, [2, 4, 9–11, 14–16, 20]). However, eigenvectors have only been found for a few related tridiagonal matrices (see [3, 6, 7, 12]).…”