Zoia Ceaușescu [SEP] father
Zoia Ceaușescu
Zoia Ceaușescu (, 28 February 1949 – 20 November 2006) was a Romanian mathematician, the daughter of Communist leader Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife, Elena.
Biography.
She studied at High School nr. 24 (now Jean Monnet High School) in Bucharest, finishing in 1966. She then continued her studies at the Faculty of Mathematics, University of Bucharest. After completing her Ph.D. in mathematics, she worked as a researcher at the Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy in Bucharest. Her field
remarked that power had a "destructive effect" on her father and that he "lost his sense of judgment".
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.
Zoia was known to be an inveterate smoker. 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: