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This is a nice survey of applications of dynamical systems methods to the study of blow-up phenomena in nonlinear heat equations. The first section deals mainly with blow-up profiles obtained by the center manifold theory. In Section 2 the authors discuss possible continuation of the solution after the blow-up time. The last section is devoted to the existence of \(L^1\)-connecting orbits between equilibria of the homogeneous Dirichlet problem for the equation \(u_t=\Delta u+\lambda e^u\) in a ball in \(\mathbb{R}^N\), \(3\leq N\leq 9\), \(\lambda>0\). These orbits blow-up in finite time in the \(L^\infty\)-norm but continue to exist in a weaker sense. The study performed in the last section has been recently continued by the authors and P.~Poláčik. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0982.37002].