The German 10-Mark note (pre-Euro) featured Carl Friederich Gauß and his equation describing the “normal curve” of probability distribution.

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What is clear, beyond all scholasticism is this:
    The taming of chance and the erosion of determinism constitute one of the most revolutionary changes in the history of the human mind. I use the word ‘revolutionary’ not as a scholar but as a speaker of common English. If that change is not revolutionary, nothing is. That is the real justification for talk of a Probabilistic Revolution 1800-1930.

Hacking, Ian. “Was There a Probabilistic Revolution 1800-1930?”, in Kruger, L. et al eds. The Probabilistic Revolution: Volume 1, Ideas in History, MIT Press 1987, p. 54.