I clearly remember the day I held the first issue of Resonance in my hands. It was sometime in 1996. I was a pre-university student fascinated with Indian science journals (not that I understood any of the papers). Current Science almost stumped me. But Resonance was much better – I was impressed by the quality of paper and print. It took me a while to appreciate its contents.
Now a days I am watching a documentary series called ‘Story of Mathematics’. The documentary has re-kindled my interest in maths. Hence I decided to download previous issues of Resonance.
Here is where you can find them – http://www.ias.ac.in/resonance/
I am on Ubuntu. Hence I used the omnipotent ‘wget’ to get all the contents of the website. Here is the line that will help you to download recursively. The command also checks for existing files and ignores them if there is no mismatch in timestamp or size. wget is cool.
$wget -r -c -N http://www.ias.ac.in/resonance/back_issue.htm