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This is an ordinary (immediate) assignment. The result of calculation of the right-hand side (in this case, a quadratic polynomial) is assigned to the variable a.
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Grozin, A. (2014). Functions. In: Introduction to Mathematica® for Physicists. Graduate Texts in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00894-3_5
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