Number of isomorphisms between two fields Let $F,F'$ be two fields. Is there anything that can be said about the number of  isomorphisms that can exist? In particular can there be more than one? What if $F$ is the complex numbers $\mathbb C$?
Context: I am trying to establish a bijection between characters in Banach algebras and maximal ideals in the algebra using the Gelfand Mazur theorem.
 A: There are $2^{2^{\aleph_0}}$ automorphisms of $\mathbb C$, a mind-boggling cardinal,  and of those only the identity and conjugation can be explicitly described.
The others depend on set-theoretical wizardry (axiom of choice).    
What is much more interesting is to take a field extension $k\subset K$ and to study the group $Aut(K/k)$ of automorphisms $\sigma: K\to K$ fixing $k$ pointwise: $\sigma(q)=q $  for all $q\in k$.
This study is  called  Galois theory, although in a strict sense Galois theory is restricted to the case where the extension $k\subset K$ is Galois,  i.e. algebraic, separable and normal.
The results  obtained in this set-up are then much more reasonable.     
For example:
 You may see  $K$  as a vector space over $k$ (a point of view introduced, I think by Emil Artin).
If the dimension of that vector space $K$ over $k$ is finite and equal to $d$, then $Aut(K/k)$ is a finite set containing $\leq d$ elements, independently of whether  the extension is Galois or not.
The simplest illustration is $Aut(\mathbb C/\mathbb R)$, a group consisting of just two elements, namely the conjugation and the identity of $\mathbb C$.
   Contrast this with the absurdly large automorphism group of $\mathbb C$ evoked at the beginning!
