strugglign to embed math symbols in a table

Hello,

 

I am trying to create a table of math symbols and their meanings to serve as a cheatsheet as I go through a couple of advanced math courses.

 

I have only been looking at LaTeX since about a week ago, and I am confused.

 

My basic document looks like:

 

% symbols.tex

\documentclass{article}

  \usepackage{amsmath,amssymb}

\begin{document}

\title{Mathematical Symbols \\ 

used in Discrete Mathematics}

\maketitle

 

\begin{tabular}{p{3cm}|c|p{3cm}}

\hline

Symbol & Name & Example \\

\hline

$\mathbb {U}$ & universal set & all elements under consideration \\

$\{\}$ & empty set & contains no elements \\

$\mathbb {N}$ & natural numbers & $\{1,2,3,4,...\}$ \\

$\mathbb {Z}$ & integers & $\{-3,-2,-1,0,1,2,3,...\}$ \\

$\math {R}$ & real numbers & \\

$\math {Q}$ & irrational numbers & \\

\end{tabular}

\end{document}

 

And the log of the pdflatex run is:

 

This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.5-1.40.14 (MiKTeX 2.9 64-bit) (preloaded format=pdflatex 2014.2.9)  10 FEB 2014 15:54

entering extended mode

**symbols.tex

(D:\NYU\latex\symbols.tex

LaTeX2e <2011/06/27>

Babel <v3.8m> and hyphenation patterns for english, afrikaans, ancientgreek, ar

abic, armenian, assamese, basque, bengali, bokmal, bulgarian, catalan, coptic, 

croatian, czech, danish, dutch, esperanto, estonian, farsi, finnish, french, ga

lician, german, german-x-2013-05-26, greek, gujarati, hindi, hungarian, iceland

ic, indonesian, interlingua, irish, italian, kannada, kurmanji, latin, latvian,

lithuanian, malayalam, marathi, mongolian, mongolianlmc, monogreek, ngerman, n

german-x-2013-05-26, nynorsk, oriya, panjabi, pinyin, polish, portuguese, roman

ian, russian, sanskrit, serbian, slovak, slovenian, spanish, swedish, swissgerm

an, tamil, telugu, turkish, turkmen, ukenglish, ukrainian, uppersorbian, usengl

ishmax, welsh, loaded.

(d:\miktex\tex\latex\base\article.cls

Document Class: article 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class

(d:\miktex\tex\latex\base\size10.clo

File: size10.clo 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX file (size option)

)

\c@part=\count79

\c@section=\count80

\c@subsection=\count81

\c@subsubsection=\count82

\c@paragraph=\count83

\c@subparagraph=\count84

\c@figure=\count85

\c@table=\count86

\abovecaptionskip=\skip41

\belowcaptionskip=\skip42

\bibindent=\dimen102

) (d:\miktex\tex\latex\amsmath\amsmath.sty

Package: amsmath 2013/01/14 v2.14 AMS math features

\@mathmargin=\skip43

For additional information on amsmath, use the `?' option.

(d:\miktex\tex\latex\amsmath\amstext.sty

Package: amstext 2000/06/29 v2.01

 

(d:\miktex\tex\latex\amsmath\amsgen.sty

File: amsgen.sty 1999/11/30 v2.0

\@emptytoks=\toks14

\ex@=\dimen103

))

(d:\miktex\tex\latex\amsmath\amsbsy.sty

Package: amsbsy 1999/11/29 v1.2d

\pmbraise@=\dimen104

)

(d:\miktex\tex\latex\amsmath\amsopn.sty

Package: amsopn 1999/12/14 v2.01 operator names

)

\inf@bad=\count87

LaTeX Info: Redefining \frac on input line 210.

\uproot@=\count88

\leftroot@=\count89

LaTeX Info: Redefining \overline on input line 306.

\classnum@=\count90

\DOTSCASE@=\count91

LaTeX Info: Redefining \ldots on input line 378.

LaTeX Info: Redefining \dots on input line 381.

LaTeX Info: Redefining \cdots on input line 466.

\Mathstrutbox@=\box26

\strutbox@=\box27

\big@size=\dimen105

LaTeX Font Info:    Redeclaring font encoding OML on input line 566.

LaTeX Font Info:    Redeclaring font encoding OMS on input line 567.

\macc@depth=\count92

\c@MaxMatrixCols=\count93

\dotsspace@=\muskip10

\c@parentequation=\count94

\dspbrk@lvl=\count95

\tag@help=\toks15

\row@=\count96

\column@=\count97

\maxfields@=\count98

\andhelp@=\toks16

\eqnshift@=\dimen106

\alignsep@=\dimen107

\tagshift@=\dimen108

\tagwidth@=\dimen109

\totwidth@=\dimen110

\lineht@=\dimen111

\@envbody=\toks17

\multlinegap=\skip44

\multlinetaggap=\skip45

\mathdisplay@stack=\toks18

LaTeX Info: Redefining \[ on input line 2665.

LaTeX Info: Redefining \] on input line 2666.

)

(d:\miktex\tex\latex\amsfonts\amssymb.sty

Package: amssymb 2013/01/14 v3.01 AMS font symbols

 

(d:\miktex\tex\latex\amsfonts\amsfonts.sty

Package: amsfonts 2013/01/14 v3.01 Basic AMSFonts support

\symAMSa=\mathgroup4

\symAMSb=\mathgroup5

LaTeX Font Info:    Overwriting math alphabet `\mathfrak' in version `bold'

(Font)                  U/euf/m/n --> U/euf/b/n on input line 106.

)) (D:\NYU\latex\symbols.aux)

LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for OML/cmm/m/it on input line 4.

LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 4.

LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for T1/cmr/m/n on input line 4.

LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 4.

LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for OT1/cmr/m/n on input line 4.

LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 4.

LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for OMS/cmsy/m/n on input line 4.

LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 4.

LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for OMX/cmex/m/n on input line 4.

LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 4.

LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for U/cmr/m/n on input line 4.

LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 4.

LaTeX Font Info:    Try loading font information for U+msa on input line 7.

 

(d:\miktex\tex\latex\amsfonts\umsa.fd

File: umsa.fd 2013/01/14 v3.01 AMS symbols A

)

LaTeX Font Info:    Try loading font information for U+msb on input line 7.

(d:\miktex\tex\latex\amsfonts\umsb.fd

File: umsb.fd 2013/01/14 v3.01 AMS symbols B

)

 

LaTeX Warning: No \author given.

 

 

Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 14--15

[]\OT1/cmr/m/n/10 contains no el-e-

[]

 

 

Overfull \hbox (22.41953pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 16--17

[]$\OMS/cmsy/m/n/10 

 

I feel like I am doing  something fundamentally wrong with encoding my math symbols, but I can't determine what it is.  I have been looking at the LaTeX wikibook as a source for how to create LaTeX documents, so any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

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