One Sheeted Hyperboloid

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Putting this into Wolfram Alpha, I saw that it is a one-sheeted hyperboloid:

$$2x^2 - 4xz + z^2 - 4yz = 4$$

Would someone be able to explain how to prove this mathematically? I thought this surface had to be of the form:

$$x^2/a^2 + y^2/b^2 + z^2/c^2 = 1$$

I have a feeling it has to do with eigenvalues but I can't quite figure it out...

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Hint: You can use quadratic forms techniques from linear algebra. See here.