The problem of taking the derivative of Wolfram Mathematica

I want to take a derivative, but it throws this error, writes can't use this variable, I don't understand why:enter a description of the image here

What could be the reason?

Author: Norfo4ik, 2019-02-20

1 answers

a - global variable, need to be localized:

Module[{a},D[f[a,b,c],a]] or Module[{a,b,c},D[f[a,b,c],a]]

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Author: AlexGlebe, 2019-02-21 10:13:14