Template:Today in Math History for May 24

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May 24, 1704 Edmond Halley gives his inaugural lecture on geometry at the University of Oxford, praising John Wallis and Sir Isaac Newton.
May 24, 1847 Joseph Liouville reads a letter to the Academie des Sciences he received from Ernst Kummer explaining that both Lamé's and Cauchy's proofs of Fermat's conjecture are flawed because they rely on unique factorization.
May 24, 2000 The Millennium Problems are announced at the Collège de France in Paris.

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