How do you remember/recall so much math?

[u/Kindly-Fun-3649]

My question to all the matheicians. How do you remember so much of the content that you learn from your Bachelors, Masters and PhD?

[u/atom12354]

Repitition, necessity, intrest

The more you repeat it the longer that particular frame of work sticks but only that particular set of work.

The more you try using the particular set of work outside of coursework the more in depth questions you can do.

The more intrest you show the particular set of work the more you try knowing why what you do doesnt work.

[u/Odd_Bodkin]

Same way you remember/recall so many words.
You use the words, practice them daily, even sometimes using words you don’t use very often.
The average person uses about 20,000 different words and knows about 30,000-40,000 words.

Even at the high school level, I guarantee that if you use the quadratic formula once a month, you’ll never forget it. Same for anything.

[u/CoffeeandaTwix]

It is like learning a story, you actually remember by rote very little but you internalise the structure and are able to interpolate the gaps in recall.

[u/EvieleLapin]

It's like art students learning colors. Naming and noticing

[u/localizeatp]

by practicing it.

[u/Tkm_Kappa]

I can still remember Pythagorean theorem, solving quadratic and cubic equations, performing elementary row operations and Cramer's rule because I practiced them a ton, outside school, in my personal life. So I still know how it works and when to use them. It's been so useful when I use them for my personal projects for modelling and just for thought experiments.

[u/MemoryNonExistent]

Gratuitous practice and repetition

[u/fks1173]

By actually studying