So this goes off on a tangent but I feel it relates to noncentrality [0]. Fokas has a PhD in maths. Being an MD or having gotten an MD 40 years ago is clearly entirely non-central to his career. Calling him Mathematician-MD seems like it is meant to make him seem a lesser mathematician, e.g. by insinuating that this is just something he does part time, and that he can hence be taken less seriously.

I don't know what the poster meant by suggesting 'Mathematician-MD', but it reads weirdly to me for that reason. It's highlighting an attribute of a person that is entirely unrelated to his career or this article. Why if not to denigrate him? The title should be changed to neutrally reflect his position.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yCWPkLi8wJvewPbEp/the-noncen...