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248: 33: 846: 724: 316:, on 24 December 1989, she was arrested for "undermining the Romanian economy", and released eight months later, on 18 August 1990. After she was freed, she tried unsuccessfully to return to her former job at INCREST, then gave up and retired. After the revolution, some newspapers reported that she had lived a wild life, having numerous lovers and often being drunk. 319:
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 and her husband had to live with friends and relatives. She made efforts to return to INCREST (from where she had been fired), but
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to keep an eye on the Ceaușescu children, perhaps she felt, out of a "sense of love". The Securitate "could not touch" the children she said, but the information they provided created a lot of problems for the children. She also remarked that power had a "destructive effect" on her father and that
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permission was denied. Zoia sued the institute, but the lawsuit was not completed; in the end, she decided to stop fighting and retire.
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After the revolution that ousted her parents, Zoia reported that during her parents' time in power her mother had asked the
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Recognizing excellence in the mathematical sciences: an international compilation of awards, prizes, and recipients
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Zoia Ceaușescu published 22 scientific papers between 1976 and 1988. Some of those are:
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and graduated in 1966. She then continued her studies at the Faculty of Mathematics,
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She was married in 1980 to Mircea Oprean, an engineer and professor at the
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Arsene, Grigore; Ceaușescu, Zoia; Constantinescu, Tiberiu (1988).
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for her outstanding contributions to the mathematical sciences.
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in Bucharest starting in 1974. Her field of specialization was
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Zoia Ceaușescu believed that her parents were not buried in
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Bucharest
People's Republic of Romania
Romania
Romanian citizenship
University of Bucharest
Nicolae Ceaușescu
Elena Ceaușescu
Nicu Ceaușescu
Valentin Ceaușescu
Simion Stoilow Prize
Mathematics
Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy
Thesis
Doctoral advisor
Ciprian Foias
[ˈzojatʃe̯a.uˈʃesku]
mathematician
Nicolae Ceaușescu
Elena

Jean Monnet High School
ro
Bucharest
University of Bucharest
Ph.D.
Ciprian Foias
Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy
functional analysis
Institute for Scientific and Technical Creativity

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