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It's not a question of demonstration but of definition. I've only ever people define fields as requiring two distinct elements 0 and 1. However, every field is also a ring and there can be, up to isomorphism, only a single ring with one element, because you don't really get any choice as to how you define the operations. That's called the trivial ring or zero ring and it basically satisfies all of the axioms for a field too, except for not having two distinct elements. So if it were possible for a field with a single element to exist, it would have to be this one.

It is my understanding that some mathematicians are looking into some objects that are kind of "like" a field with one element, but not in the sense of classical algebra, see: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_with_one_element

However, I haven't really looked into that.




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