For us it is imperative not to consider functions on the upper half plane but rather to consider functions on GL(2,Q)\GL(2,A(Q)) where A(Q) is the adéle ring of Q. We also replace Q by an arbitrary number field or function field (in one variable over a finite field) F . One can introduce [3] a space of functions, called automorphic forms, and the notion that an irreducible representation π ofGL...