Zoia Ceaușescu
Zoia Ceaușescu | |
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Romanian citizenship | |
Alma mater | University of Bucharest |
Spouse | Mircea Oprean (1980 until her death) |
Parent(s) | Nicolae Ceaușescu Elena Ceaușescu |
Relatives | Nicu Ceaușescu Valentin Ceaușescu |
Awards | Simion Stoilow Prize |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy INCREST |
Thesis | On Intertwining Dilations (1977) |
Doctoral advisor | Ciprian Foias |
Zoia Ceaușescu (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈzoja tʃe̯a.uˈʃesku]; 28 February 1949 – 20 November 2006) was a Romanian mathematician, the daughter of Communist leader Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife, Elena. She was also known as Tovarășa Zoia (comrade Zoia).
Biography
Zoia Ceaușescu studied at High School nr. 24 (now
She was married in 1980 to Mircea Oprean, an engineer and professor at the
During the
After her parents were executed, the new government confiscated the house where she and her husband lived (the house was used as proof of allegedly stolen wealth), so she had to live with friends.
After the revolution that ousted her parents, Zoia reported that during her parents' time in power her mother had asked the Securitate to keep an eye on the Ceaușescu children, perhaps she felt, out of a "sense of love".[6] The Securitate "could not touch" the children she said, but the information they provided created a lot of problems for the children.[7] She also remarked that power had a "destructive effect" on her father and that he "lost his sense of judgement".[8]
Zoia Ceaușescu believed that her parents were not buried in Ghencea Cemetery; she attempted to have their remains exhumed, but a military court refused her request.[citation needed]
Zoia was a chain smoker.[9] She died of lung cancer in 2006, at age 57.
Selected publications
Zoia Ceaușescu published 22 scientific papers between 1976 and 1988. Some of those are:
- Ceaușescu, Zoia; Vasilescu, Florian-Horia (1978). "Tensor products and the joint spectrum in Hilbert spaces". MR 0509243.
- Ceaușescu, Zoia (1979). "Lifting of a contraction intertwining two isometries". MR 0532324.
- Arsene, Grigore; Ceaușescu, Zoia; Constantinescu, Tiberiu (1988). "Schur analysis of some completion problems". MR 0961563.
References
- ^ Zoia Ceaușescu at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- OCLC 37513025.
- ^ (in Romanian) Oana Dobre, "Invinsǎ de cancer" Archived 20 May 2009 at the Wayback Machine, Evenimentul Zilei, 22 November 2006
- ^ (in Romanian) Camelia Onciu, "Sub povara numelui" Archived 29 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine, Monitorul de Sibiu, 22 November 2006
- ^ "Wild Life of Ceaușescu's Daughter Bared", Los Angeles Times, 10 January 1990, page 2
- ^ The rise and fall of Ceaușescu, a BBC Television Production written and presented by Edward Behr, 1991
- ^ The rise and fall of Ceaușescu, a BBC Television Production written and presented by Edward Behr, 1991
- ^ The rise and fall of Ceaușescu, a BBC Television Production written and presented by Edward Behr, 1991
- ^ (in Romanian) "o fumătoare înrăită" ("An inveterate smoker")
External links
- Media related to Zoia Ceaușescu at Wikimedia Commons