<p>For a completely regular Hausdorff topological space X, let C(X, C) be the ring of complex-valued continuous functions on C ∗ (X, its subring bounded functions, and Σ(X, denote collection all rings that lie between C). We show there is natural correlation absolutely convex ideals/ prime ideals/maximal ideals/z-ideals/z ◦ -ideals in P(X, their real-valued counterparts ∩ C(X). These corr...