%0 Journal Article %A Díaz-Cano Ocaña, Antonio %T Orderings and maximal ideals of rings of analytic functions. %D 2005 %@ 1088-6826 %U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/49882 %X We prove that there is a natural injective correspondence between the maximal ideals of the ring of analytic functions on a real analytic set X and those of its subring of bounded analytic functions. By describing the maximal ideals in terms of ultrafilters we see that this correspondence is surjective if and only if X is compact. This approach is also useful for studying the orderings of the field of meromorphic functions on X. %~