Konkvistador comments on Why do people commit mathematical mistakes? What are the mechanisms behind them? - Less Wrong
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Because sometimes our reasoning fails?
Are you seeking specific (preferably common) ways in which "mathematical reasoning fails"? If so my first idea for something like this would be failure of short term memory.
It's less, I feel, about reasoning than it is about attention. Working memory, that is.