Before the end of every year, we reach out to the more than 2,500 journalists who work at Bloomberg’s 150-plus bureaus around the world and ask them to poll the newsmakers they cover in search of our best books of the year. The results might seem random at first. Going There, the gossipy tell-all from news anchor Katie Couric, has very little in common with a volume that bears the name Lectures on the Philosophy of Mathematics.