2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/65289Kneser-Haken Finiteness asserts that for each compact 3-manifold M there is an integer c(M) such that any collection of k>c(M) closed, essential, 2-sided surfaces in M must contain parallel elements. We show here that if M is closed then twice the number of tetrahedra in a (pseudo)-triangulation of M suffices for c(M).4 pages, 1 figure; to appear in Proceedings of the AMSGeometric Topology57M99text