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Translated from Matematicheskie Zametki, Vol. 55, No. 6, pp. 32–49, June, 1994.
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Vechtomov, E.M. Rings of continuous functions and their maximal spectra. Math Notes 55, 568–579 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02110350
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