If is an experimental novel of ideas. You are the nameless protagonist, a young dreamer from northern California. At the end of each chapter, you must make a decision. These decisions shape your identity as the novel swerves toward twenty-two possible endings. While your choices take you to rural Guatemala, Manhattan, or Berlin, the novel continually changes its form. What are the limits of freedom, and how much of life is within your control?
Nicolas Bourbaki is the collective pseudonym under which a group of (mainly French) 20th-century mathematicians wrote a series of books presenting an exposition of modern advanced mathematics, beginning in 1935. With the goal of founding all of mathematics on set theory, the group strove for rigour and generality. Their work led to the discovery of several concepts and terminologies still discussed. Bourbaki congress, 1938.
While Nicolas Bourbaki is an invented personage, the Bourbaki group is officially known as the Association des collaborateurs de Nicolas Bourbaki (Association of Collaborators of Nicolas Bourbaki), which has an office at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris.