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Maximal ideals in the ring of continuous real-valued functions on ℝ

Peter Johnstone's book Stone Spaces (p. 144) proves that for any X, maximal ideals in $C(X)$ are the same as maximal ideals in $C_b(X)$ (bounded functions), i.e. the Stone-Cech compactification $\beta …
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