The German 10-Mark note (pre-Euro) featured Carl Friederich Gauß and his equation describing the “normal curve” of probability distribution.
From the doctrine of chances to the calculus of probabilities, from least squares to regression analysis, the advances in scientific logic that took place in statistics before 1900 were to be every bit as influential as those associated with the names Newton and Darwin.
Stigler, Stephen M. “The History of Statistics: The Measurement of Uncertainty before 1900”, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1986, p. 361
