{"id":1580,"date":"2026-08-17T11:58:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T01:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/discretemaths\/?p=1580"},"modified":"2026-08-17T11:59:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T01:59:15","slug":"sophia-takes-the-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/discretemaths\/2026\/08\/17\/sophia-takes-the-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophia takes the cake!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sophia Witham has won big at the Faculty of Science baking competition. Her Latin cube of order 5 won both the mathematics prize and the people&#8217;s choice awards. An amazing work &#8212; and believe me it tasted really good too. I&#8217;m really looking forward to her 4-dimensional hypercube in next year&#8217;s competition!!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/discretemaths\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/161\/2026\/08\/SophiaCake1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/discretemaths\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/161\/2026\/08\/SophiaCake1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1583\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/discretemaths\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/161\/2026\/08\/SophiaCake1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/discretemaths\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/161\/2026\/08\/SophiaCake1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/discretemaths\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/161\/2026\/08\/SophiaCake1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/discretemaths\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/161\/2026\/08\/SophiaCake1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/discretemaths\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/161\/2026\/08\/SophiaCake1.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sophia Witham has won big at the Faculty of Science baking competition. Her Latin cube of order 5 won both the mathematics prize and the people&#8217;s choice awards. An amazing work &#8212; and believe me it tasted really good too. I&#8217;m really looking forward to her 4-dimensional hypercube in next year&#8217;s competition!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1002,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/discretemaths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/discretemaths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/discretemaths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/discretemaths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1002"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/discretemaths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1580"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/discretemaths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1585,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/discretemaths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580\/revisions\/1585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/discretemaths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/discretemaths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/discretemaths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}