An old theorem of Pospisil asserts that for any infinite set $I$ the power-set algebra $\wp(I)$ has $\exp \exp |I|$ many maximal ideals containing the ideal of finite sets. This result is published in a rather obscure Czech journal but it seems it should be well-known and described in many textbooks/monographs. I would appreciate any references for that.


Also, I am interested in more general results, that is, what are the sufficient conditions for a given Boolean algebra $\mathcal{A}\subseteq \wp(I)$ with $\mbox{fin}(I)\subseteq \mathcal{A}$ to have $\exp \exp |I|$ many maximal ideals containing $\mbox{fin}(I)$.


Thank you.



Maximal ideals in Boolean algebras; reference request
The result on the number of maximal ideals can be found as Corollary 7.4. in the book Comfort & Negrepontis "The Theory of Ultrafilters", 1974. A proof can also be found at PlanetMath [here](https://planetmath.org/NumberOfUltrafilters).


