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Do such techniques work for mathematical stuff, like equations or formulae?


They should! This could even be a cool way to apply something like Gödel numbering. [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del_numbering


Sure; you just need a mapping of math symbols to memorable objects/colors/verbs/whatever. Mnemonics are just symbol mapping.


So say I want to remember what Tallagrand's Inequality was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talagrand%27s_concentration_in... . How would one go about it?


Unfortunately, no one can give you a way that would work for you, because that's kind of the point: you adjust your internal representation to your strengths. But here's an example of how I'd map it to a memory palace, based on what I did for my driver's license test.

In my case, I'd walk into the living room of my old house and I "see" that someone wrote "ct24" on the floor. That's all I need to remember that I'm trying to reconstruct that pr[A].pr[A^c_t]<=e-(t^2)/4, because I know I'm reconstructing an inequality, exponents of e are often negative, and I know that I need to parse that text as [][ct][t24] (which are the exponents and sub-indices I need).

I then picture that a guy comes to me and says "Hi, I'm Paxton", and he's wearing a t-shirt with an Omega symbol. With that, I can reconstruct A_t={x in Omega|p(A,x)<=t} (in case you didn't catch it, I map p(A,x)<=t to "Paxton").

And so on. Note that I can take some shortcuts here because I'm playing to my strengths of being used to equations, and therefore I don't need to memorize that the second step defines A_t because it comes naturally.

For a completely different approach, you can picture a kid trying to say "Practice", but he mumbles instead "Pra... Pract...et... 24!", which you can map back to the equation ("Pract" = Pr[a^c_t]). The fact that the "24!" at the end comes out of nowhere only makes the scene more memorable, and therefore easier to remember.


Thank you! I just wanted an example so I could conceptualize what this system was talking about.


When I was ten years old I was proud to have memorized lots of odd things like the name of the highest peak in Sri Lanka or the capital of Honduras . Now 50+ years on I still remember them because I wanted to remember, but I honestly can say nobody ever has asked me for it . I also learnt 5 languages , because I wanted to be able to communicate or just understand what was written there. I never used mnemonics , I always forget them.


While not exactly an answer to your question, you could go through the process described here: http://cognitivemedium.com/srs-mathematics

Which would probably burn that into your brain pretty well.




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