Bockman Cheung

Welcome to Bockman Cheung’s webpage! I am a first year UCLA math undergraduate. Outside of math, I am most involved in supporting the cause of Palestinian struggles and labor rights, playing the piano (I’m finding myself most appreciative of Bach and Beethoven, but I am recently going into modern music too), and writing (I have a lot of opinions about the world; I like to write opinion articles and look into journalism).

Academic Focus

I’m interested in learning homotopy theory, higher algebra, algebraic geometry, and various cohomology theories (e.g. group cohomology, grid cohomology) throughout mathematics. In one year from now (i.e. by the end of sophmore year), I would like to see myself understanding the basics of those.

… mathematics is so rich and infinite that it is impossible to learn it systematically, and if you wait to master one topic before moving on to the next, you’ll never get anywhere. Instead, you’ll have tendrils of knowledge extending far from your comfort zone. Then you can later backfill from these tendrils, and extend your comfort zone; this is much easier to do than learning “forwards”.
Ravi Vakil: On Seminars

Great resources for a first course in Modern Algebra

My inbox is always open to questions/information sharing.

Music

My instrument is piano, and I occasionally perform classical music and go to classical concerts.

I am involved in Bruin Chamber Musicians, a chamber music club for non-music majors. My performances in UCLA:

Yukiko Nishimura, Myraid of Stars, I. Starry Heaven
Percussionist: Viraj Sonawala, Winter 2024.
Leroy Anderson, Fiddle Faddle
Percussionist: Viraj Sonawala, Fall 2023.

Daily Bruin

I write for Daily Bruin as an opinion columnist, and I focus on campus issues. In the future, I would like to look for opportunities related to communication in sciences to the public. My list of articles: